Eric Maisel Quotes

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• Life is too short not to create, not to love, and not to lend a helping hand to our brothers and sisters.

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  Brother, Life Is Too Short, Helping Others

  Eric Maisel (2000). “The Creativity Book: A Year's Worth of Inspiration and Guidance”, p.249, Penguin

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• Dream, but expect nothing. Desire, but expect nothing. Hope, but expect nothing. Release your need to control and gain real control.

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  Dream, Real, Desire

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• Settle into mystery as you would settle into your most comfortable chair. Listen. Have visions. Lose yourself.

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  Vision, Mystery, Losing Yourself

  Eric Maisel (2000). “The Creativity Book: A Year's Worth of Inspiration and Guidance”, p.27, Penguin

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• When you consciously decide to breathe more slowly and deeply, you alert your body to the fact that you want it to behave differently. You are not just changing your breathing pattern, you are making a full-body announcement that you are entering into a different relationship with your mind and your body.

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  Relationship, Breathing, Mind

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• When you flow like water you bring all of your talents and resources to your creative work... Flow around every obstacle you encounter, including any you've erected yourself.

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  Water, Creative, Encounters

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• All space is space in which to create.

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  Space

  Eric Maisel (2000). “The Creativity Book: A Year's Worth of Inspiration and Guidance”, p.22, Penguin

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• A wild person with a calm mind can make anything.

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  Calm Mind, Mind, Calm

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• 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 friend and advocate.

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  Encouragement, Real, Artist

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

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• Our desire is to grow so quiet and to work so deeply that we participate fully in the mystery in which we're embedded. When we manage to do that we feel as if we have merged with the universe; for the duration of that experience we feel immortal.

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  Desire, Duration, Quiet

  Eric Maisel (2000). “The Creativity Book: A Year's Worth of Inspiration and Guidance”, p.183, Penguin

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• If, because of anxiety and self-doubt, you procrastinate and only think about working, you'll feel more exhausted than if you'd created for hours.

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  Thinking, Self, Anxiety

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

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• We have enough experiences in a day to make art for a decade.

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  Art, Experience, Enough

  Eric Maisel (2013). “Making Your Creative Mark: Nine Keys to Achieving Your Artistic Goals”, p.204, New World Library

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• There are an infinite number of rewards you could bestow on yourself for working at your creative projects, and you deserve every one of them.

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  Numbers, Creative, Rewards

  Eric Maisel (2000). “The Creativity Book: A Year's Worth of Inspiration and Guidance”, p.223, Penguin

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• Love is the spirit that motivates the artist's journey.

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  Artist, Journey, Love Is

  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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• The three elements of creativity are thus: loving, knowing, and doing - or heart, mind, and hands - or, as Zen Buddhist teaching has it; great faith, great question, and great courage.

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  Buddhist, Teaching, Heart

  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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• To create you must quiet your mind. You need a quiet mind so that ideas will have a chance of connecting.

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  Ideas, Silence, Mind

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• When the artist activates his being, awakens to his surroundings, and sets himself the task of creating, connections are made out of conscious awareness that return coalesced as inspiration.

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  Inspiration, Artist, Creating

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

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• An artist feels vulnerable to begin with; and yet the only answer is to recklessly discard more armour.

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  Artist, Answers, Vulnerable

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

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• You can't plan in advance for everything - every mood swing, every mistake you might make in execution, every shift in your circumstances. But you can keep updating your plan.

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  Mistake, Swings, Might

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• Let each of us dream of a community of artists and work to make that dream a reality.

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  Dream, Artist, Reality

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

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• Whatever pain and suffering you've experienced in your life has been a blessing at least in this one regard: you now know some true things that you couldn't have learned any other way.

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  Pain, Blessing, Suffering

  Eric Maisel (2000). “The Creativity Book: A Year's Worth of Inspiration and Guidance”, p.123, Penguin

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• Talent is so loaded a word, so full to the brim with meanings, that an artist might be wise to forget about it altogether and just keep on working.

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  Wise, Artist, Might

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

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• One visit with a child can supply us with enough creativity dust to last for a lifetime... Visit with children like you're the child you ought to be more often.

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  Children, Creativity, Dust

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• Creativity is the marriage humanity makes with eternity.

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  Creativity, Humanity, Eternity

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

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• 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 who do not court the creative muses.

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  Creativity, Artist, Self

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• The artist... may suppose that ideas are his chief currency; but unless he is also attuned to feelings, in life and in art, he will not move his fellow human beings.

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  Art, Moving, Ideas

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

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