Eric Maisel Quotes About Creativity

Quotes about: Creativity

• 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.

  Eric Maisel

  Creativity, Artist, Self

• Creativity is the marriage humanity makes with eternity.

  Eric Maisel

  Creativity, Humanity, Eternity

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

• 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.

  Eric Maisel

  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

• 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.

  Eric Maisel

  Children, Creativity, Dust

• Because she favours solitude and indwelling, an artist can live a significantly more claustrophobic life that she had ever intended.

  Eric Maisel

  Creativity, Being Alone, Artist

• 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.

  Eric Maisel

  Wall, Creativity, Anxiety

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

• Make creativity your religion... because creating is soulful work.

  Eric Maisel

  Creativity, Creating, Soulful

• Creativity is part sweat - not just beads of it, but sometimes buckets.

  Eric Maisel

  Work, Creativity, Sweat

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

• 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.

  Eric Maisel

  Pain, Creativity, Doors

• Creativity is the gift that keeps on giving.

  Eric Maisel

  Creativity, Vacation, Giving

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

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