Eric Maisel

“Picture a litter of kittens. One is more curious than the next. One is more aggressive than the next. One is a…

— Eric Maisel

Affirmations are not bound up in rules. An affirmation can be long or short, poetic or plain. If you love a phrase…

— Eric Maisel

A wild person with a calm mind can make anything.

— Eric Maisel

Artists know failure. It is not tragic that they know failure; it is only tragic if they know failure and little else...

— Eric Maisel

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

You honor your writing space by recovering, if you are an addict. You honor your writing space by becoming an anxiety expert,…

— Eric Maisel

Creativity is the marriage humanity makes with eternity.

— Eric Maisel

“Write, even if you have a twinge, a doubt, a fear, a block, a noisy neighbor, a sick cat, thirteen unpublished stories,…

— Eric Maisel

Many people are embarrassed to create in public. It feels unseemly to them, like kissing in plain view... Make a spectacle of…

— Eric Maisel

Ambition is vital, but dangerous: it is a keen motive and a driving force, but over what edge can it drive the…

— Eric Maisel

The artist must possess at least as much conviction as does his enemy, the dogmatic, mealy-mouthed, anti-art bigot.

— Eric Maisel

Talent is so loaded a word, so full to the brim with meanings, that an artist might be wise to forget about…

— Eric Maisel

Artists are often poignantly careless about making and keeping friends.

— Eric Maisel

There are an infinite number of rewards you could bestow on yourself for working at your creative projects, and you deserve every…

— Eric Maisel

“To put it aphoristically, no experience can feel meaningful to a nihilist—that is, to someone who has already decided that life is…

— Eric Maisel

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

— Eric Maisel

“It is not a race that can be won, a truth the brain-aware manic knows somewhere in his being and a truth…

— Eric Maisel

Dream, but expect nothing. Desire, but expect nothing. Hope, but expect nothing. Release your need to control and gain real control.

— Eric Maisel

The writer loves the fog as it pours in; he loves the sun when the fog pours out. The rest of California…

— Eric Maisel

I am a human being and an artist: I really, simply, surely am.

— Eric Maisel

Go directly to work' means... when an idea strikes, you drop everything and when your work bell tolls, you answer it.

— Eric Maisel

As the artist matures she is continuously shaken by what she manages to discover: by the earth shifting beneath her feet once…

— Eric Maisel

“The only time I can get the thoughts to stop is when I get lost in something very creative and puzzle-like—and then…

— Eric Maisel

Art is manipulation, the management of material, the directing of fate... Who does that directing?

— Eric Maisel

The more sophisticated we become - as we pierce reality and see the void beyond - the more our sense of wonder…

— Eric Maisel