Creativity is part sweat - not just beads of it, but sometimes buckets. — Eric Maisel Copy Share Image
“Creativity is not a talent or ability. It is the fruit of a person’s decision to matter.” — Eric Maisel Copy Share Image
“The song you write may be beautiful, the research you conceive may be beautiful, but you are the real beauty in life.” — Eric Maisel Copy Share Image
There are an infinite number of rewards you could bestow on yourself for working at your creative projects, and you deserve every… — Eric Maisel Copy Share Image
Because she favours solitude and indwelling, an artist can live a significantly more claustrophobic life that she had ever intended. — Eric Maisel Copy Share Image
A creative block is a fear about the future, a guess about the dangers dwelling in the dark computer and the locked… — Eric Maisel Copy Share Image
To create you must quiet your mind. You need a quiet mind so that ideas will have a chance of connecting. — Eric Maisel Copy Share Image
To obsess too virulently is to walk alone in anxiety. But to obsess too little is to wall oneself off from one's… — Eric Maisel Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
When you flow like water you bring all of your talents and resources to your creative work... Flow around every obstacle you… — Eric Maisel Copy Share Image
While it may feel natural to devote yourself to your creative work and succumb to feelings of separation and alienation, it nevertheless… — Eric Maisel Copy Share Image
If you bring your sexual impulses to your creative work... you'll be working from deep in the genetic code, down where life… — Eric Maisel Copy Share Image
One visit with a child can supply us with enough creativity dust to last for a lifetime... Visit with children like you're… — Eric Maisel Copy Share Image
The three elements of creativity are thus: loving, knowing, and doing - or heart, mind, and hands - or, as Zen Buddhist… — Eric Maisel Copy Share Image
Creativity requires introspection, self-examination, and a willingness to take risks. Because of this, artists are perhaps more susceptible to self-doubt and despair… — Eric Maisel Copy Share Image
Revealing secrets can bring us pain or get us into trouble, but worse pain and worse trouble await us if we keep… — Eric Maisel Copy Share Image
Affirmations need to be used if they are to become incorporated into the fabric of your being. — Eric Maisel Copy Share
The wise artist makes peace with the fact that he will understand less than he had anticipated. — Eric Maisel Copy Share
Creativity requires introspection, self-examination, and a willingness to take risks. Because of this, artists are perhaps more susceptible to self-doubt and despair than those… — Eric Maisel Copy Share
You can't plan in advance for everything - every mood swing, every mistake you might make in execution, every shift in your circumstances. But… — Eric Maisel Copy Share
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… — Eric Maisel Copy Share
“What if you can't help but judge life negatively? What if yesterday felt awful, today feels awful, and tomorrow is likely to feel awful… — Eric Maisel Copy Share
The artist's personality, built upon strong desires and compassionate vision, is by its nature prone to depression. — Eric Maisel Copy Share
“The song you write may be beautiful, the research you conceive may be beautiful, but you are the real beauty in life.” — Eric Maisel Copy Share
“How you conceptualize meaning matters. If you hold that it is outside of yourself and must be tracked down, you have one idea of… — Eric Maisel Copy Share
Artists have wild desires and a terrible hunger to achieve... Without it they haven't the juice for striving or loving. But desire also can… — Eric Maisel Copy Share
If you bring your sexual impulses to your creative work... you'll be working from deep in the genetic code, down where life wants to… — Eric Maisel Copy Share
It goes against an artist's grain to retire. But whether he retires or not, he will age... What work will get done in the… — Eric Maisel Copy Share
Boredom is the thing that regularly arrives between excitements and episodes of meaning: it is as natural as the tides, and in it an… — Eric Maisel Copy Share
