Eric Maisel

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

— 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…

— 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

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

— 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…

— Eric Maisel

An alive piece of art may be more alive than much of its audience, and with this odd truth artists must make…

— Eric Maisel

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

— Eric Maisel

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

— Eric Maisel

While artists fervently believe that the art marketplace was invented by the devil and remains in his henchman's hands, they have no…

— Eric Maisel

“If there is a soul, then it is a mistake to think that it is given to us completely created. It is…

— Eric Maisel

“How can a person brim over with life energy and big plans one moment and feel suicidal the next? She can cycle…

— Eric Maisel

Whatever pain and suffering you've experienced in your life has been a blessing at least in this one regard: you now know…

— Eric Maisel

The artist, who must venture into the studio and risk there, and then venture into the marketplace and risk again, is obliged…

— Eric Maisel

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

The three elements of creativity are thus: loving, knowing, and doing - or heart, mind, and hands - or, as Zen Buddhist…

— Eric Maisel

“That as a smart person, whose brain races faster and harder than the next person's, you can't accomplish something like stopping your…

— Eric Maisel

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

— 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

Chaos is everywhere - and artists, to fashion art and live truthfully, have no choice but to invite this unwanted guest right…

— Eric Maisel

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

The artist, busy and unsettled, can find a moment's peace - and even whole-being rejuvenation - by quietly attuning to a red…

— Eric Maisel