Eric Maisel Quotes

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• To create you must quiet your mind. You need a quiet mind so that ideas will have a chance of connecting.
• Affirmations are not bound up in rules. An affirmation can be long or short, poetic or plain. If you love a phrase and find that…
• Life is too short not to create, not to love, and not to lend a helping hand to our brothers and sisters.
• Creativity is the marriage humanity makes with eternity.
• 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 who…
• Your chances of creating deeply hinge on the quality of your awareness state.
• Abstraction is itself an abstract word and has no single meaning ... Every word in our language is abstract, because it represents something else.
• Almost nothing beautiful or brilliant happens unless a person has thought about it a lot.
• A key to a long, productive writing life is finding ways to support that life, emotionally and existentially.
• If we had the consciousness of a cat or a dog, we would have it in us to become perfect Zen masters. We could gnaw…
• An artist feels vulnerable to begin with; and yet the only answer is to recklessly discard more armour.
• The writer loves the fog as it pours in; he loves the sun when the fog pours out. The rest of California is Beach Boys…
• Dream, but expect nothing. Desire, but expect nothing. Hope, but expect nothing. Release your need to control and gain real control.
• When a thing is not done, continuing to work is the strength; but when it is done, the strength lies in stopping.
• The artist's task is to become a successful eccentric, a strange but wise duck able to venture out of solitary confinement and mingle among society.
• Affirmations need to be used if they are to become incorporated into the fabric of your being.
• It goes against an artist's grain to retire. But whether he retires or not, he will age... What work will get done in the remaining…
• Ambition is vital, but dangerous: it is a keen motive and a driving force, but over what edge can it drive the artist?
• An inability to choose is a hallmark of anxiety... The too-anxious artist, afraid to choose, will halt dead in the water.
• Art is manipulation, the management of material, the directing of fate... Who does that directing?

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