Eric Maisel Quotes

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• Isn't today a day to devote to craft? Isn't tomorrow? Isn't every day, routinely, until the end of time?
• Make creativity your religion... because creating is soulful work.
• There are an infinite number of rewards you could bestow on yourself for working at your creative projects, and you deserve every one of them.
• The artist, who must venture into the studio and risk there, and then venture into the marketplace and risk again, is obliged to learn how…
• All space is space in which to create.
• Many people are embarrassed to create in public. It feels unseemly to them, like kissing in plain view... Make a spectacle of yourself.
• Whatever pain and suffering you've experienced in your life has been a blessing at least in this one regard: you now know some true things…
• Talent is so loaded a word, so full to the brim with meanings, that an artist might be wise to forget about it altogether and…
• The artist at her best - wild, passionate, rebellious, and human - is often too large and truthful a creature for society's taste. The artist…
• We can carve time out of thin air, or we can fill up even infinite stretches of time with nothingness. These are our choices.
• An artist... must actively caress wonder: for fascination, like the desire to play, can be eradicated by the rigors of living.
• The more sophisticated we become - as we pierce reality and see the void beyond - the more our sense of wonder is destroyed, along…
• Go directly to work' means... when an idea strikes, you drop everything and when your work bell tolls, you answer it.
• Creativity is part sweat - not just beads of it, but sometimes buckets.
• The three elements of creativity are thus: loving, knowing, and doing - or heart, mind, and hands - or, as Zen Buddhist teaching has it;…
• Because she favours solitude and indwelling, an artist can live a significantly more claustrophobic life that she had ever intended.
• The artist's personality, built upon strong desires and compassionate vision, is by its nature prone to depression.
• You can sweat by not practicing or you can pick up your clarinet. There's good sweat and there's bad sweat.
• An artist must struggle to accept the shape of this universe - and achieve some important successes...
• Love is the spirit that motivates the artist's journey.

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