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

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  Creativity, Being Alone, Artist

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

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  Aim, Composition, Built

  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?

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  Doubt, Painting, Because I Can

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

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  Character, Artist, Flaws

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

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• Chaos is everywhere - and artists, to fashion art and live truthfully, have no choice but to invite this unwanted guest right into the studio.

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  Fashion, Art, Choices

  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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• Art and business may be strange bedfellows, but an artist must make room in her bed for both.

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  Art, Business, Rooms

  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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• Boredom is the thing that regularly arrives between excitements and episodes of meaning: it is as natural as the tides, and in it an artist can drown.

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  Artist, Boredom, Tides

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

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• The strange, unbeautiful face beautiful in its ugliness; the perfect, beautiful face ugly in its perfection.

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  Beauty, Beautiful, Perfection

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

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

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  Artist, Choices, Ability

  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.

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  Health, Ideas, Creative

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

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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.

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  Artist, Growth, Crafts

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

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• Artists have wild desires and a terrible hunger to achieve... Without it they haven't the juice for striving or loving. But desire also can make them greedy and turn dreams into unrealizable obsessions.

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  Dream, Artist, Desire

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

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• Hurray for criticism, if it means that an artist's voice is heard. Let the wise artist invite criticism and survive it when it comes.

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  Wise, Mean, Artist

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

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• An artist's fine goal is to manifest a well-nigh heroic self-discipline, carefully attending to all that concerns him.

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  Artist, Self, Discipline

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

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• Creativity is the gift that keeps on giving.

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  Creativity, Vacation, Giving

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

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• The artist must possess at least as much conviction as does his enemy, the dogmatic, mealy-mouthed, anti-art bigot.

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  Art, Enemy, Doe

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

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• 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.

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  Pain, Creativity, Doors

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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?

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  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.

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  Artist, Sky, Blue

  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.

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  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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