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
It is the job of each artist to believe in the possibility of meaningful, substantial, and sustainable change. — 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
Let each of us dream of a community of artists and work to make that dream a reality. — 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
Art and business may be strange bedfellows, but an artist must make room in her bed for both. — 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
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
A time comes, after years in the trenches, when the artist begins to fathom what his career has looked like so far… — 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
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
An artist... must actively caress wonder: for fascination, like the desire to play, can be eradicated by the rigors of living. — Eric Maisel Copy Share Image
The artist... may suppose that ideas are his chief currency; but unless he is also attuned to feelings, in life and in… — Eric Maisel Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Keenly aware of their limitations, artists often remain insecure even as their list of successes grows. — Eric Maisel Copy Share Image
Who knows how many artists fail because the light that shines through them is defracted in a thousand directions and not concentrated… — Eric Maisel Copy Share Image
An artist feels vulnerable to begin with; and yet the only answer is to recklessly discard more armour. — Eric Maisel Copy Share Image
The artist, who must venture into the studio and risk there, and then venture into the marketplace and risk again, is obliged… — Eric Maisel Copy Share Image
The artist, busy and unsettled, can find a moment's peace - and even whole-being rejuvenation - by quietly attuning to a red… — Eric Maisel Copy Share Image
The artist's task is to become a successful eccentric, a strange but wise duck able to venture out of solitary confinement and… — Eric Maisel Copy Share Image
The artist at her best - wild, passionate, rebellious, and human - is often too large and truthful a creature for society's… — 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
