Eric Maisel Quotes

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• Rekindling hope, engaging in inner work, and venturing into the world amount to a complete plan for picking yourself up when you're down.
• Humanitarian convictions are the linchpins of our salvation, and these an artist must champion.
• The artist is a god, but he is also an idiot. That is the human way.
• The artist... may suppose that ideas are his chief currency; but unless he is also attuned to feelings, in life and in art, he will…
• Our desire is to grow so quiet and to work so deeply that we participate fully in the mystery in which we're embedded. When we…
• While some part of the artwork may fail, the whole may have its own unique importance.
• When the artist activates his being, awakens to his surroundings, and sets himself the task of creating, connections are made out of conscious awareness that…
• Deconstruction is great for the intellect, but it hurts the heart terribly.
• The artist dreams of works of real breadth; but, limited by his personality and the nature of his medium, limited by inner disturbances and loss…
• Keenly aware of their limitations, artists often remain insecure even as their list of successes grows.
• The middle way cannot be achieved by dividing two extremes in half.
• No muse shoots darts of insight into the unsuspecting artist.
• Settle into mystery as you would settle into your most comfortable chair. Listen. Have visions. Lose yourself.
• To obsess too virulently is to walk alone in anxiety. But to obsess too little is to wall oneself off from one's own creativity.
• If you create you will also wait, and while you're waiting you will want to be patient but not idle... responses from the world often…
• The wise artist makes peace with the fact that he will understand less than he had anticipated.
• You can't plan in advance for everything - every mood swing, every mistake you might make in execution, every shift in your circumstances. But you…
• I am one powerful self made up of so many selves that sometimes I throw myself a get-acquainted party.
• A time comes, after years in the trenches, when the artist begins to fathom what his career has looked like so far and what it…
• Remind yourself of the value of detaching from work that's out of your hands and committing to new work that wants to be born.

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