Art Quote by Eric Maisel Download Open image “Artists are often poignantly careless about making and keeping friends.” — Eric Maisel ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.5 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Art Artist Careless Friendship Inspirational
An artist usually has no friends except other artists, and usually they do not like his work. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
Most artists probably feel lonely or set apart in childhood. But they grow up and find people who share their interests. — Deborah Solomon Copy Share Image
Every artist feels alone and isolated, Friends are very important in terms of all sorts of definitions of oneself. They tell you what you… — Jasper Johns Copy Share Image
Great artists treasure their time with a bitter and snarling miserliness. — Catherine Drinker Bowen Copy Share Image
I've not met one person, even if they are not creative, who isn't dysfunctional. I guess artists are just a bit more aware of… — Karen Elson Copy Share Image
As soon as I started working at the 'Los Angeles Times,' people warned me not to get too close to artists because it could… — Robert Hilburn Copy Share Image
Writers are painful friends, and they are seldom friendly with others. They are insecure in the presence of other writers. Composers of certain kinds… — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
Artists are the worst [people]. They are selfish, self-centred; they don't care what happens. — Ai Weiwei Copy Share Image
Artists live in an imperfect world where affairs of the heart must sometimes be compromised with business. — Sara Genn Copy Share Image
Good artists exist in what they make, and consequently are perfectly uninteresting in what they are. — Dave Eggers Copy Share Image
Back in the day, artists could be mysterious. Now, people want to know and hear everything about you. They want to see and feel… — Kandi Burruss Copy Share Image
Affirmations need to be used if they are to become incorporated into the fabric of your being. — Eric Maisel Copy Share Image
The wise artist makes peace with the fact that he will understand less than he had anticipated. — Eric Maisel Copy Share Image
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… — Eric Maisel Copy Share Image
You can't plan in advance for everything - every mood swing, every mistake you might make in execution, every shift in your circumstances. But… — Eric Maisel Copy Share Image
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… — Eric Maisel Copy Share Image
“What if you can't help but judge life negatively? What if yesterday felt awful, today feels awful, and tomorrow is likely to feel awful… — Eric Maisel Copy Share Image
The artist's personality, built upon strong desires and compassionate vision, is by its nature prone to depression. — Eric Maisel Copy Share Image
“The song you write may be beautiful, the research you conceive may be beautiful, but you are the real beauty in life.” — Eric Maisel Copy Share Image
“How you conceptualize meaning matters. If you hold that it is outside of yourself and must be tracked down, you have one idea of… — Eric Maisel Copy Share Image
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… — Eric Maisel Copy Share Image
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… — Eric Maisel Copy Share Image
True works of art contain their own theory and give us the measurement according to which we should judge them. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Before Noah, men having only water to drink, could not find the truth. Accordingly...they became abominably wicked, and they were justly exterminated by the… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
“Hear the sum of the whole matter in the compass of one brief word — every art possessed by man comes from Prometheus.” — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
I think most artists feel like they're outside society - no matter how many accolades they receive, or how much money is in your… — Aaron Rose Copy Share Image
The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science. — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
That's the great secret of creativity. You treat ideas like cats: you make them follow you. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“So, really," continued Jacob as if this were perfectly normal to expound on art in these circumstances, "when you think about it, the artists… — Justina Chen Headley Copy Share Image
“There are two options in art; either to adopt philosophical life by dissecting art, or to write your own philosophical life and claim it… — Taf Teh Copy Share Image
The house has to serve comfort. The work of art is revolutionary; the house is conservative. — Adolf Loos Copy Share Image
During human progress, every science is evolved out of its corresponding art. — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
In literature and art memory is a synonym for invention. It is the life-blood of imagination, which faints and dies when the veins are… — Robert Aris Willmott Copy Share Image
I think a business guy is different from an artist. They walk different paths. Artists create the best outputs when they're having fun. And… — G-Dragon Copy Share Image