Eric Maisel Quotes - Page 4

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

  Eric Maisel

  Mean, Ideas, Tolls

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• The artist's personality, built upon strong desires and compassionate vision, is by its nature prone to depression.

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  Depression, Strong, Artist

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

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• You can sweat by not practicing or you can pick up your clarinet. There's good sweat and there's bad sweat.

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  Sweat, Worry, Clarinet

  Eric Maisel (2000). “The Creativity Book: A Year's Worth of Inspiration and Guidance”, p.231, Penguin

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• An artist must struggle to accept the shape of this universe - and achieve some important successes.

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  Struggle, Artist, Important

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

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• Affirmations are not bound up in rules. An affirmation can be long or short, poetic or plain. If you love a phrase and find that it helps you, that is a valid affirmation.

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  Long, Phrases, Helping

  Eric Maisel (2013). “Making Your Creative Mark: Nine Keys to Achieving Your Artistic Goals”, p.203, New World Library

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• As the artist matures she is continuously shaken by what she
  manages to discover: by the earth shifting beneath her feet once again,
  by her own amazed, ringing laughter.

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  Laughter, Artist, Feet

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• An inability to choose is a hallmark of anxiety... The too-anxious artist, afraid to choose, will halt dead in the water.

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  Artist, Water, Anxiety

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

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• Art is manipulation, the management of material, the directing of fate... Who does that directing?

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  Art, Fate, Manipulation

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

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• Artists disbelieve and dispute society's most cherished notions.

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  Artist, Disputes, Notion

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

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• An alive piece of art may be more alive than much of its audience, and with this odd truth artists must make peace.

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  Art, Pieces, Alive

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

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• While artists fervently believe that the art marketplace was invented by the devil and remains in his henchman's hands, they have no choice but to carry long spoons and sup there.

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  Art, Believe, Hands

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

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• 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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  Hands, Progress, New Work

  Eric Maisel (2000). “The Creativity Book: A Year's Worth of Inspiration and Guidance”, p.237, Penguin

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• We can carve time out of thin air, or we can fill up even infinite stretches of time with nothingness. These are our choices.

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  Air, Choices, Infinite

  Eric Maisel (2000). “The Creativity Book: A Year's Worth of Inspiration and Guidance”, p.21, Penguin

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• A long, deep breath is the equivalent of a full stop and the key to centering.

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  Keys, Long, Centering

  Eric Maisel (2008). “A Writer's Space: Make room to dream, to work, to write”, p.105, Adams Media

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• You honor your writing space by recovering, if you are an addict. You honor your writing space by becoming an anxiety expert, a real pro at mindfulness and personal calming. You honor your writing space by affirming that you matter, that your writing life matters, and that your current writing project matters. You honor your writing space by entering it with this mantra: “I am ready to work.” You enter, grow quiet, and vanish into your writing.

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  Real, Writing, Space

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• Love is the spirit that motivates the artist's journey. The love may sublime, raw, obsessive, passionate, awful. or thrilling, but whatever its quality, it's a powerful motive in the artist's life.

  Eric Maisel

  Powerful, Artist, Journey

  Eric Maisel (2010). “Creativity for Life: Practical Advice on the Artist's Personality, and Career from America's Foremost Creativity Coach”, p.26, New World Library

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