Ambition is vital, but dangerous: it is a keen motive and a driving force, but over what edge can it drive the… — Eric Maisel Copy Share Image
An artist must struggle to accept the shape of this universe - and achieve some important successes... — Eric Maisel Copy Share Image
The artist's personality, built upon strong desires and compassionate vision, is by its nature prone to depression. — Eric Maisel Copy Share Image
The artist can't paint, sing, or dance without emotion: if he does, he is a machine masquerading as a person. — Eric Maisel Copy Share Image
The artist must possess at least as much conviction as does his enemy, the dogmatic, mealy-mouthed, anti-art bigot. — Eric Maisel Copy Share Image
Artists know failure. It is not tragic that they know failure; it is only tragic if they know failure and little else... — Eric Maisel Copy Share Image
Artists are often poignantly careless about making and keeping friends. — Eric Maisel Copy Share Image
The growth that an artist seeks is a fine combination of mastering craft, garnering an audience, maintaining one's mental health, and working… — Eric Maisel Copy Share Image
The artist dreams of works of real breadth; but, limited by his personality and the nature of his medium, limited by inner… — Eric Maisel Copy Share Image
It is the artist's job to revere beauty without being enchanted by it, to aim for it but also to aim for… — Eric Maisel Copy Share Image
Hurray for criticism, if it means that an artist's voice is heard. Let the wise artist invite criticism and survive it when… — 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
The artist who pictures sounds as colours, who feels the difference in microns between one sea green and another... is not attending… — Eric Maisel Copy Share Image
Love is the spirit that motivates the artist's journey. The love may sublime, raw, obsessive, passionate, awful. or thrilling, but whatever its… — Eric Maisel Copy Share Image
As the artist matures she is continuously shaken by what she manages to discover: by the earth shifting beneath her feet once… — Eric Maisel Copy Share Image
It goes against an artist's grain to retire. But whether he retires or not, he will age... What work will get done… — Eric Maisel Copy Share Image
To decide to reach for this blue and not that one, to switch styles or subject matter, to move, in the middle… — Eric Maisel Copy Share Image
Art is manipulation, the management of material, the directing of fate... Who does that directing? — Eric Maisel Copy Share Image
An inability to choose is a hallmark of anxiety... The too-anxious artist, afraid to choose, will halt dead in the water. — Eric Maisel Copy Share Image
An artist's fine goal is to manifest a well-nigh heroic self-discipline, carefully attending to all that concerns him. — Eric Maisel Copy Share Image
Art and business may be strange bedfellows, but an artist must make room in her bed for both. — Eric Maisel Copy Share Image
The wise artist makes peace with the fact that he will understand less than he had anticipated. — Eric Maisel Copy Share Image
Let each of us dream of a community of artists and work to make that dream a reality. — Eric Maisel Copy Share Image
An alive piece of art may be more alive than much of its audience, and with this odd truth artists must make… — Eric Maisel Copy Share Image
Talent is so loaded a word, so full to the brim with meanings, that an artist might be wise to forget about… — Eric Maisel Copy Share Image
When the artist activates his being, awakens to his surroundings, and sets himself the task of creating, connections are made out of… — Eric Maisel Copy Share Image
The artist must reckon with his own character flaws, which do not disappear just because he has been called to be an… — Eric Maisel Copy Share Image
Boredom is the thing that regularly arrives between excitements and episodes of meaning: it is as natural as the tides, and in… — Eric Maisel Copy Share Image
Artists have wild desires and a terrible hunger to achieve... Without it they haven't the juice for striving or loving. But desire… — Eric Maisel Copy Share Image
An artist who is too self-centered is liable to exhibit faults he abhors: carelessness, callousness, and even downright cruelty. — Eric Maisel Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Chaos is everywhere - and artists, to fashion art and live truthfully, have no choice but to invite this unwanted guest right… — 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
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
Humanitarian convictions are the linchpins of our salvation, and these an artist must champion. — 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 Image
The wise artist makes peace with the fact that he will understand less than he had anticipated. — 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 than those… — Eric Maisel Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
The artist's personality, built upon strong desires and compassionate vision, is by its nature prone to depression. — 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
“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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
