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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
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.
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When a thing is not done, continuing to work is the strength; but when it is done, the strength lies in stopping.
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An essential aspect of self-support is to remind yourself that success is not measurable, but a matter of feeling.
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Settle into mystery as you would settle into your most comfortable chair. Listen. Have visions. Lose yourself.
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Almost nothing beautiful or brilliant happens unless a person has thought about it a lot.
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To create you must quiet your mind. You need a quiet mind so that ideas will have a chance of connecting.
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Creativity is the gift that keeps on giving.
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Affirmations need to be used if they are to become incorporated into the fabric of your being.
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The strange, unbeautiful face beautiful in its ugliness; the perfect, beautiful face ugly in its perfection.
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The wise artist makes peace with the fact that he will understand less than he had anticipated.
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The artist's personality, built upon strong desires and compassionate vision, is by its nature prone to depression.
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An inability to choose is a hallmark of anxiety ... The too-anxious artist, afraid to choose, will halt dead in the water.
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An alive piece of art may be more alive than much of its audience, and with this odd truth artists must make peace.
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It is the job of each artist to believe in the possibility of meaningful, substantial, and sustainable change.
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Ambition is vital, but dangerous: it is a keen motive and a driving force, but over what edge can it drive the artist?
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Isn't today a day to devote to craft? Isn't tomorrow? Isn't every day, routinely, until the end of time?
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Artists know failure. It is not tragic that they know failure; it is only tragic if they know failure and little else ...
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A creative block is a fear about the future, a guess about the dangers dwelling in the dark computer and the locked studio.
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Do I doubt the painting I've just painted because it is not right or because I can never like what I do?
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We can carve time out of thin air, or we can fill up even infinite stretches of time with nothingness. These are our choices.
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Art is manipulation, the management of material, the directing of fate ... Who does that directing?
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The artist can't paint, sing, or dance without emotion: if he does, he is a machine masquerading as a person.
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A key to a long, productive writing life is finding ways to support that life, emotionally and existentially.
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The song you write may be beautiful, the research you conceive may be beautiful, but you are the real beauty in life.
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An artist feels vulnerable to begin with; and yet the only answer is to recklessly discard more armour.
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All space is space in which to create.
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You can sweat by not practicing or you can pick up your clarinet. There's good sweat and there's bad sweat.
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While some part of the artwork may fail, the whole may have its own unique importance.
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The artist must possess at least as much conviction as does his enemy, the dogmatic, mealy-mouthed, anti-art bigot.
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I am one powerful self made up of so many selves that sometimes I throw myself a get-acquainted party.
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An artist must struggle to accept the shape of this universe - and achieve some important successes ...
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Creativity is not a talent or ability. It is the fruit of a person's decision to matter.
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Go directly to work' means ... when an idea strikes, you drop everything and when your work bell tolls, you answer it.
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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.
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The artist must reckon with his own character flaws, which do not disappear just because he has been called to be an artist.
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Creativity is the marriage humanity makes with eternity.
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The result may be important but it's not the actual measure. The measure is the feeling you have made contact with something.
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A wild person with a calm mind can make anything.
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Art and business may be strange bedfellows, but an artist must make room in her bed for both.
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