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• 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 will look like if he continues as he's proceeded.

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  Artist, Years, Careers

  Eric Maisel (1996). “Affirmations for Artists”, Tarcher

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• Abstraction is itself an abstract word and has no single meaning ... Every word in our language is abstract, because it represents something else.

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  Language, Abstract, Abstraction

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• Art and business may be strange bedfellows, but an artist must make room in her bed for both.

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  Art, Business, Rooms

  Eric Maisel (1996). “Affirmations for Artists”, Tarcher

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• While some part of the artwork may fail, the whole may have its own unique importance.

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  Unique, May, Failing

  Eric Maisel (1996). “Affirmations for Artists”, Tarcher

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• Boredom is the thing that regularly arrives between excitements and episodes of meaning: it is as natural as the tides, and in it an artist can drown.

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  Artist, Boredom, Tides

  Eric Maisel (1996). “Affirmations for Artists”, Tarcher

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• Deconstruction is great for the intellect, but it hurts the heart terribly.

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  Hurt, Heart, Deconstruction

  Eric Maisel (2000). “The Creativity Book: A Year's Worth of Inspiration and Guidance”, p.112, Penguin

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• 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 of purpose, he often works more narrowly than he'd intended.

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  Dream, Real, Loss

  Eric Maisel (1996). “Affirmations for Artists”, Tarcher

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• Keenly aware of their limitations, artists often remain insecure even as their list of successes grows.

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  Insecure, Artist, Lists

  Eric Maisel (1996). “Affirmations for Artists”, Tarcher

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• The strange, unbeautiful face beautiful in its ugliness; the perfect, beautiful face ugly in its perfection.

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  Beauty, Beautiful, Perfection

  Eric Maisel (1996). “Affirmations for Artists”, Tarcher

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• No muse shoots darts of insight into the unsuspecting artist.

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  Artist, Muse, Darts

  Eric Maisel (1996). “Affirmations for Artists”, Tarcher

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• It is the artist's job to revere beauty without being enchanted by it, to aim for it but also to aim for truth and goodness - just in case they, and not beauty, are the real things of value.

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  Beauty, Jobs, Real

  Eric Maisel (1996). “Affirmations for Artists”, Tarcher

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• 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.

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  Wall, Creativity, Anxiety

  Eric Maisel (1996). “Affirmations for Artists”, Tarcher

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• 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 take a long time.

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  Patience, Long, Waiting

  Eric Maisel (2000). “The Creativity Book: A Year's Worth of Inspiration and Guidance”, p.236, Penguin

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• Humanitarian convictions are the linchpins of our salvation, and these an artist must champion.

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  Artist, Champion, Humanity

  Eric Maisel (1996). “Affirmations for Artists”, Tarcher

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• The writer loves the fog as it pours in; he loves the sun when the fog pours out. The rest of California is Beach Boys country, but San Francisco has that moody thing going on, those blues notes wrapped in moisture, an atmosphere that tempers California dreaming and makes life more real. The fog brings reality, but it is still a California reality, one spent outdoors the whole year round.

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  Dream, Country, Beach

  Eric Maisel (2010). “A Writer's San Francisco: A Guided Journey for the Creative Soul”, p.7, New World Library

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• A key to a long, productive writing life is finding ways to support that life, emotionally and existentially.

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  Writing, Keys, Long

  Eric Maisel (2006). “A Writer's San Francisco: A Guided Journey for the Creative Soul”, p.128, New World Library

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• Go directly to work' means... when an idea strikes, you drop everything and when your work bell tolls, you answer it.

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  Mean, Ideas, Tolls

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• Chaos is everywhere - and artists, to fashion art and live truthfully, have no choice but to invite this unwanted guest right into the studio.

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  Fashion, Art, Choices

  Eric Maisel (1996). “Affirmations for Artists”, Tarcher

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• The artist is a god, but he is also an idiot. That is the human way.

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  Artist, Humanity, Way

  Eric Maisel (1996). “Affirmations for Artists”, Tarcher

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• Creativity is the gift that keeps on giving.

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  Creativity, Vacation, Giving

  Eric Maisel (1996). “Affirmations for Artists”, Tarcher

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• The artist must possess at least as much conviction as does his enemy, the dogmatic, mealy-mouthed, anti-art bigot.

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  Art, Enemy, Doe

  Eric Maisel (1996). “Affirmations for Artists”, Tarcher

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• 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.

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  Wise, Mean, Artist

  Eric Maisel (1996). “Affirmations for Artists”, Tarcher

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• 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 them greedy and turn dreams into unrealizable obsessions.

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  Dream, Artist, Desire

  Eric Maisel (1996). “Affirmations for Artists”, Tarcher

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• An artist's fine goal is to manifest a well-nigh heroic self-discipline, carefully attending to all that concerns him.

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  Artist, Self, Discipline

  Eric Maisel (1996). “Affirmations for Artists”, Tarcher

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• Revealing secrets can bring us pain or get us into trouble, but worse pain and worse trouble await us if we keep silent...Revealing secrets can bring us pain or get us into trouble, but worse pain and worse trouble await us if we keep silent… we become habitually untruthful. The door to our creativity closes. gr we become habitually untruthful. The door to our creativity closes.

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  Pain, Creativity, Doors

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