Eric Maisel Quotes

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• Artists disbelieve and dispute society's most cherished notions.
• An alive piece of art may be more alive than much of its audience, and with this odd truth artists must make peace.
• It is the artist's job to revere beauty without being enchanted by it, to aim for it but also to aim for truth and goodness…
• The strange, unbeautiful face beautiful in its ugliness; the perfect, beautiful face ugly in its perfection.
• Boredom is the thing that regularly arrives between excitements and episodes of meaning: it is as natural as the tides, and in it an artist…
• Let each of us dream of a community of artists and work to make that dream a reality.
• Art and business may be strange bedfellows, but an artist must make room in her bed for both.
• It is the job of each artist to believe in the possibility of meaningful, substantial, and sustainable change.
• Chaos is everywhere - and artists, to fashion art and live truthfully, have no choice but to invite this unwanted guest right into the studio.
• The artist must reckon with his own character flaws, which do not disappear just because he has been called to be an artist.
• One visit with a child can supply us with enough creativity dust to last for a lifetime... Visit with children like you're the child you…
• An ability to choose is a necessity for the artist.
• To decide to reach for this blue and not that one, to switch styles or subject matter, to move, in the middle of a sentence,…
• The artist who pictures sounds as colours, who feels the difference in microns between one sea green and another... is not attending to what the…
• The artist, busy and unsettled, can find a moment's peace - and even whole-being rejuvenation - by quietly attuning to a red sky, a gray…
• While artists fervently believe that the art marketplace was invented by the devil and remains in his henchman's hands, they have no choice but to…
• A composition is an arrangement, built out of parts, that aims at seamlessness.
• Who knows how many artists fail because the light that shines through them is defracted in a thousand directions and not concentrated in a single…
• Revealing secrets can bring us pain or get us into trouble, but worse pain and worse trouble await us if we keep silent...Revealing secrets can…
• The artist must possess at least as much conviction as does his enemy, the dogmatic, mealy-mouthed, anti-art bigot.

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