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• Who knows how many artists fail because the light that shines through them is defracted in a thousand directions and not concentrated in a single beam?

  Eric Maisel

  Artist, Light, Shining

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

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• The artist, busy and unsettled, can find a moment's peace - and even whole-being rejuvenation - by quietly attuning to a red sky, a gray sky, a black sky, a blue sky.

  Eric Maisel

  Artist, Sky, Blue

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

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• The artist must reckon with his own character flaws, which do not disappear just because he has been called to be an artist.

  Eric Maisel

  Character, Artist, Flaws

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

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• To decide to reach for this blue and not that one, to switch styles or subject matter, to move, in the middle of a sentence, in one direction or another, to commit to this book when that one is also calling, are the sorts of choices that artists must make if they are to function.

  Eric Maisel

  Moving, Book, Artist

  Eric Maisel (2013). “Making Your Creative Mark: Nine Keys to Achieving Your Artistic Goals”, p.200, New World Library

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• An ability to choose is a necessity for the artist.

  Eric Maisel

  Artist, Choices, Ability

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

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• Do I doubt the painting I've just painted because it is not right or because I can never like what I do?

  Eric Maisel

  Doubt, Painting, Because I Can

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

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• The growth that an artist seeks is a fine combination of mastering craft, garnering an audience, maintaining one's mental health, and working mightily from a ever-expanding base of experience.

  Eric Maisel

  Artist, Growth, Crafts

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

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• While it may feel natural to devote yourself to your creative work and succumb to feelings of separation and alienation, it nevertheless isn't a terrific idea in terms of your overall happiness and health.

  Eric Maisel

  Health, Ideas, Creative

  Eric Maisel (2000). “The Creativity Book: A Year's Worth of Inspiration and Guidance”, p.163, Penguin

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• A composition is an arrangement, built out of parts, that aims at seamlessness.

  Eric Maisel

  Aim, Composition, Built

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

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• Artists are often poignantly careless about making and keeping friends.

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  Friendship, Artist, Careless

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

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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.

  Eric Maisel

  Air, Choices, Infinite

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

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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.

  Eric Maisel

  Laughter, Artist, Feet

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

  Eric Maisel

  Struggle, Artist, Important

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

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

  Eric Maisel

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

  Eric Maisel

  Sweat, Worry, Clarinet

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

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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.

  Eric Maisel

  Real, Writing, Space

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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.

  Eric Maisel

  Art, Believe, Hands

  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.

  Eric Maisel

  Art, Pieces, Alive

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

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

  Eric Maisel

  Artist, Disputes, Notion

  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?

  Eric Maisel

  Art, Fate, Manipulation

  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.

  Eric Maisel

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

  Eric Maisel

  Artist, Water, Anxiety

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

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

  Eric Maisel

  Depression, Strong, Artist

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

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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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• 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.

  Eric Maisel

  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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