Eric Maisel Quotes

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• Creativity is the gift that keeps on giving.
• Hurray for criticism, if it means that an artist's voice is heard. Let the wise artist invite criticism and survive it when it comes.
• Live intensely and dangerously. The world may not depend on your efforts, but you do.
• 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 make…
• An artist's fine goal is to manifest a well-nigh heroic self-discipline, carefully attending to all that concerns him.
• Do I doubt the painting I've just painted because it is not right or because I can never like what I do?
• I am a human being and an artist: I really, simply, surely am.
• An artist who is too self-centered is liable to exhibit faults he abhors: carelessness, callousness, and even downright cruelty.
• The artist can't paint, sing, or dance without emotion: if he does, he is a machine masquerading as a person.
• 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 friend…
• 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 make…
• 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 hours.
• We have enough experiences in a day to make art for a decade.
• Artists know failure. It is not tragic that they know failure; it is only tragic if they know failure and little else...
• A creative block is a fear about the future, a guess about the dangers dwelling in the dark computer and the locked studio.
• Even though we require flexibility to negotiate our changing circumstances, we are rather built to anxiously turn away from alternatives.
• When you flow like water you bring all of your talents and resources to your creative work... Flow around every obstacle you encounter, including any…
• Artists are often poignantly careless about making and keeping friends.
• The growth that an artist seeks is a fine combination of mastering craft, garnering an audience, maintaining one's mental health, and working mightily from a…
• While it may feel natural to devote yourself to your creative work and succumb to feelings of separation and alienation, it nevertheless isn't a terrific…

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