Affirmations need to be used if they are to become incorporated into the fabric of your being. — Eric Maisel Copy Share Image
Affirmations are not bound up in rules. An affirmation can be long or short, poetic or plain. If you love a phrase… — 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
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
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
If you create you will also wait, and while you're waiting you will want to be patient but not idle... responses from… — 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
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
You honor your writing space by recovering, if you are an addict. You honor your writing space by becoming an anxiety expert,… — Eric Maisel Copy Share Image
If we had the consciousness of a cat or a dog, we would have it in us to become perfect Zen masters.… — 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
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
Our desire is to grow so quiet and to work so deeply that we participate fully in the mystery in which we're… — Eric Maisel Copy Share Image
If, because of anxiety and self-doubt, you procrastinate and only think about working, you'll feel more exhausted than if you'd created for… — 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
