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An artist's fine goal is to manifest a well-nigh heroic self-discipline, carefully attending to all that concerns him. — Eric Maisel

Write, even if you have a twinge, a doubt, a fear, a block, a noisy neighbor, a sick cat, thirteen unpublished stories, and a painful boil. — Eric Maisel

An ability to choose is a necessity for the artist. — Eric Maisel

Life is too short not to create, not to love, and not to lend a helping hand to our brothers and sisters. — Eric Maisel

When a thing is not done, continuing to work is the strength; but when it is done, the strength lies in stopping. — Eric Maisel

An essential aspect of self-support is to remind yourself that success is not measurable, but a matter of feeling. — Eric Maisel

Settle into mystery as you would settle into your most comfortable chair. Listen. Have visions. Lose yourself. — Eric Maisel

Boredom is the thing that regularly arrives between excitements and episodes of meaning: it is as natural as the tides, and in it an artist can drown. — Eric Maisel

A composition is an arrangement, built out of parts, that aims at seamlessness. — Eric Maisel

Almost nothing beautiful or brilliant happens unless a person has thought about it a lot. — Eric Maisel

To create you must quiet your mind. You need a quiet mind so that ideas will have a chance of connecting. — Eric Maisel

Creativity is part sweat - not just beads of it, but sometimes buckets. — Eric Maisel

Because she favours solitude and indwelling, an artist can live a significantly more claustrophobic life that she had ever intended. — Eric Maisel

An artist ... must actively caress wonder: for fascination, like the desire to play, can be eradicated by the rigors of living. — Eric Maisel

Creativity is the gift that keeps on giving. — Eric Maisel

Affirmations need to be used if they are to become incorporated into the fabric of your being. — Eric Maisel

Let each of us dream of a community of artists and work to make that dream a reality. — Eric Maisel

We have enough experiences in a day to make art for a decade. — Eric Maisel

The strange, unbeautiful face beautiful in its ugliness; the perfect, beautiful face ugly in its perfection. — Eric Maisel

Abstraction is itself an abstract word and has no single meaning ... Every word in our language is abstract, because it represents something else. — Eric Maisel

The wise artist makes peace with the fact that he will understand less than he had anticipated. — Eric Maisel

Artists disbelieve and dispute society's most cherished notions. — Eric Maisel

Deconstruction is great for the intellect, but it hurts the heart terribly. — Eric Maisel

The artist's personality, built upon strong desires and compassionate vision, is by its nature prone to depression. — Eric Maisel

The artist is a god, but he is also an idiot. That is the human way. — Eric Maisel

An inability to choose is a hallmark of anxiety ... The too-anxious artist, afraid to choose, will halt dead in the water. — Eric Maisel

To obsess too virulently is to walk alone in anxiety. But to obsess too little is to wall oneself off from one's own creativity. — Eric Maisel

An alive piece of art may be more alive than much of its audience, and with this odd truth artists must make peace. — Eric Maisel

Make creativity your religion ... because creating is soulful work. — Eric Maisel

It is the job of each artist to believe in the possibility of meaningful, substantial, and sustainable change. — Eric Maisel

If, because of anxiety and self-doubt, you procrastinate and only think about working, you'll feel more exhausted than if you'd created for hours. — Eric Maisel

Chaos is everywhere - and artists, to fashion art and live truthfully, have no choice but to invite this unwanted guest right into the studio. — Eric Maisel

Many people are embarrassed to create in public. It feels unseemly to them, like kissing in plain view ... Make a spectacle of yourself. — Eric Maisel

Talent is so loaded a word, so full to the brim with meanings, that an artist might be wise to forget about it altogether and just keep on working. — Eric Maisel

Ambition is vital, but dangerous: it is a keen motive and a driving force, but over what edge can it drive the artist? — Eric Maisel

Isn't today a day to devote to craft? Isn't tomorrow? Isn't every day, routinely, until the end of time? — Eric Maisel

Artists know failure. It is not tragic that they know failure; it is only tragic if they know failure and little else ... — Eric Maisel

A creative block is a fear about the future, a guess about the dangers dwelling in the dark computer and the locked studio. — Eric Maisel

Artists are often poignantly careless about making and keeping friends. — Eric Maisel

Do I doubt the painting I've just painted because it is not right or because I can never like what I do? — Eric Maisel

We can carve time out of thin air, or we can fill up even infinite stretches of time with nothingness. These are our choices. — Eric Maisel

By 'expecting nothing' you are not 'giving up.' Far from it! You are making a decision to focus on what needs to be done rather than on outcomes. — Eric Maisel

Dream, but expect nothing. Desire, but expect nothing. Hope, but expect nothing. Release your need to control and gain real control. — Eric Maisel

Art is manipulation, the management of material, the directing of fate ... Who does that directing? — Eric Maisel

The artist's task is to become a successful eccentric, a strange but wise duck able to venture out of solitary confinement and mingle among society. — Eric Maisel

The artist can't paint, sing, or dance without emotion: if he does, he is a machine masquerading as a person. — Eric Maisel

No muse shoots darts of insight into the unsuspecting artist. — Eric Maisel

A key to a long, productive writing life is finding ways to support that life, emotionally and existentially. — Eric Maisel

The song you write may be beautiful, the research you conceive may be beautiful, but you are the real beauty in life. — Eric Maisel

An artist feels vulnerable to begin with; and yet the only answer is to recklessly discard more armour. — Eric Maisel

All space is space in which to create. — Eric Maisel

The middle way cannot be achieved by dividing two extremes in half. — Eric Maisel

You can sweat by not practicing or you can pick up your clarinet. There's good sweat and there's bad sweat. — Eric Maisel

Hurray for criticism, if it means that an artist's voice is heard. Let the wise artist invite criticism and survive it when it comes. — Eric Maisel

Your chances of creating deeply hinge on the quality of your awareness state. — Eric Maisel

While some part of the artwork may fail, the whole may have its own unique importance. — Eric Maisel

I am a human being and an artist: I really, simply, surely am. — Eric Maisel

It is in an artist's real interest to congratulate herself more often: not out of narcissism, but in her role as her own dear friend and advocate. — Eric Maisel

The artist must possess at least as much conviction as does his enemy, the dogmatic, mealy-mouthed, anti-art bigot. — Eric Maisel

I am one powerful self made up of so many selves that sometimes I throw myself a get-acquainted party. — Eric Maisel

An artist must struggle to accept the shape of this universe - and achieve some important successes ... — Eric Maisel

Creativity is not a talent or ability. It is the fruit of a person's decision to matter. — Eric Maisel

Go directly to work' means ... when an idea strikes, you drop everything and when your work bell tolls, you answer it. — Eric Maisel

Remind yourself of the value of detaching from work that's out of your hands and committing to new work that wants to be born. — Eric Maisel

The artist must reckon with his own character flaws, which do not disappear just because he has been called to be an artist. — Eric Maisel

Creativity is the marriage humanity makes with eternity. — Eric Maisel

The result may be important but it's not the actual measure. The measure is the feeling you have made contact with something. — Eric Maisel

There are an infinite number of rewards you could bestow on yourself for working at your creative projects, and you deserve every one of them. — Eric Maisel

A wild person with a calm mind can make anything. — Eric Maisel

Even though we require flexibility to negotiate our changing circumstances, we are rather built to anxiously turn away from alternatives. — Eric Maisel

A long, deep breath is the equivalent of a full stop and the key to centering. — Eric Maisel

Art and business may be strange bedfellows, but an artist must make room in her bed for both. — Eric Maisel

Live intensely and dangerously. The world may not depend on your efforts, but you do. — Eric Maisel

Keenly aware of their limitations, artists often remain insecure even as their list of successes grows. — Eric Maisel

Rekindling hope, engaging in inner work, and venturing into the world amount to a complete plan for picking yourself up when you're down. — Eric Maisel