"I am a human being and an artist:……" — Eric Maisel

"I am a human being and an artist: I really, simply, surely am."

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100 Quotes by Eric Maisel

Eric Maisel has 100 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

To create you must quiet your mind. You need a quiet mind so that ideas will have a chance of…
Affirmations are not bound up in rules. An affirmation can be long or short, poetic or plain. If you love…
Life is too short not to create, not to love, and not to lend a helping hand to our brothers…
Creativity is the marriage humanity makes with eternity.
Creativity requires introspection, self-examination, and a willingness to take risks. Because of this, artists are perhaps more susceptible to self-doubt…
Your chances of creating deeply hinge on the quality of your awareness state.
Abstraction is itself an abstract word and has no single meaning ... Every word in our language is abstract, because…
Almost nothing beautiful or brilliant happens unless a person has thought about it a lot.
A key to a long, productive writing life is finding ways to support that life, emotionally and existentially.
If we had the consciousness of a cat or a dog, we would have it in us to become perfect…
An artist feels vulnerable to begin with; and yet the only answer is to recklessly discard more armour.
The writer loves the fog as it pours in; he loves the sun when the fog pours out. The rest…

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More Artist Quotes

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Let each man exercise the art he knows. — Aristophanes
I think an artist, in my definition of that word, would not be someone who takes sides with the emperor… — Chinua Achebe
Art is our chief means of breaking bread with the dead. — Wystan Hugh Auden
Of all possible subjects, travel is the most difficult for an artist, as it is the easiest for a journalist. — Wystan Hugh Auden
All works of art are commissioned in the sense that no artist can create one by a simple act of… — Wystan Hugh Auden
A revised schedule is to business what a new season is to an athlete or a new canvas to an… — Norman Ralph Augustine
Being a cover artist is not like being a real artist. That's just copying what someone else did. — Sebastian Bach
I do struggle with how much and in which way, as an artist or celebrity, that you voice your political… — Kevin Bacon
The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery. — Francis Bacon
I'm not a driven businessman, but a driven artist. I never think about money. Beautiful things make money. — Lord Acton
I have a master plan as an artist. I've always said I'm not going to be punching nobody's clock. I… — Erykah Badu
Artists need some kind of stimulating experience a lot of times, which crystallizes when you sing about it or paint… — Erykah Badu

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