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• Isn't today a day to devote to craft? Isn't tomorrow? Isn't every day, routinely, until the end of time?

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  Crafts, Today, Tomorrow

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

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• The artist at her best - wild, passionate, rebellious, and human - is often too large and truthful a creature for society's taste. The artist at her most outlandish - profane, eccentric, even a little mad - is at least as disquieting a figure.

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  Artist, Mad, Passionate

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• It is the job of each artist to believe in the possibility of meaningful, substantial, and sustainable change.

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  Change, Meaningful, Jobs

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

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• Your chances of creating deeply hinge on the quality of your awareness state.

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  Creating, Quality, Chance

  Eric Maisel (2000). “The Creativity Book: A Year's Worth of Inspiration and Guidance”, p.158, Penguin

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• If we had the consciousness of a cat or a dog, we would have it in us to become perfect Zen masters. We could gnaw on a bone, take a nap, play with a spider until we killed it, get our litter just right, and be innocently and serenely present. Meaning would mean nothing to us, nor would we need it to mean anything. We would be free, and we would be spared. But, we are human beings, and we posses that odd duck – human consciousness.

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  Dog, Mean, Cat

  Eric Maisel, PhD (2012). “The Van Gogh Blues: The Creative Person s Path Through Depression”, p.65, New World Library

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• Almost nothing beautiful or brilliant happens unless a person has thought about it a lot.

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  Beautiful, Brilliant, Persons

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• I am one powerful self made up of so many selves that sometimes I throw myself a get-acquainted party.

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  Powerful, Party, Self

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

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• Affirmations need to be used if they are to become incorporated into the fabric of your being.

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  Needs, Fabric, Affirmation

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

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

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  Work, Creativity, Sweat

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

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• I am a human being and an artist: I really, simply, surely am.

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  Artist, Ego, Humans

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

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• If you bring your sexual impulses to your creative work... you'll be working from deep in the genetic code, down where life wants to make new life and feel good in the process.

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  Creative, Feel Good, New Life

  Eric Maisel (2000). “The Creativity Book: A Year's Worth of Inspiration and Guidance”, p.220, Penguin

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• The more sophisticated we become - as we pierce reality and see the void beyond - the more our sense of wonder is destroyed, along with our reasons for being.

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  Reality, Void, Wonder

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

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• The artist who pictures sounds as colours, who feels the difference in microns between one sea green and another... is not attending to what the world considers important.

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  Artist, Sea, Differences

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• Live intensely and dangerously. The world may not depend on your efforts, but you do.

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  Effort, World, May

  Eric Maisel (2000). “The Creativity Book: A Year's Worth of Inspiration and Guidance”, p.105, Penguin

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• Rekindling hope, engaging in inner work, and venturing into the world amount to a complete plan for picking yourself up when you're down.

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  Hope, World, Pick Yourself Up

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• An artist who is too self-centered is liable to exhibit faults he abhors: carelessness, callousness, and even downright cruelty.

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  Artist, Self, Ego

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

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• By 'expecting nothing' you are not 'giving up.' Far from it! You are making a decision to focus on what needs to be done rather than on outcomes.

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  Giving Up, Focus, Decision

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• Artists know failure. It is not tragic that they know failure; it is only tragic if they know failure and little else.

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  Failure, Artist, Littles

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

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• A creative block is a fear about the future, a guess about the dangers dwelling in the dark computer and the locked studio.

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  Fear, Block, Dark

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

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• The artist can't paint, sing, or dance without emotion: if he does, he is a machine masquerading as a person.

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  Artist, Doe, Machines

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

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• Even though we require flexibility to negotiate our changing circumstances, we are rather built to anxiously turn away from alternatives.

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  Alternatives, Circumstances, Turns

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

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• An artist... must actively caress wonder: for fascination, like the desire to play, can be eradicated by the rigors of living.

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  Artist, Play, Desire

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

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• When a thing is not done, continuing to work is the strength; but when it is done, the strength lies in stopping.

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  Strength, Lying, Stopping

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

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• The middle way cannot be achieved by dividing two extremes in half.

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  Two, Half, Way

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

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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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