Eric Maisel Quotes - Page 4

Quotes about:

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

  Eric Maisel

  Friendship, Artist, Careless

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

  4 Copy quote

• Go directly to work' means... when an idea strikes, you drop everything and when your work bell tolls, you answer it.

  Eric Maisel

  Mean, Ideas, Tolls

  4 Copy quote

• A key to a long, productive writing life is finding ways to support that life, emotionally and existentially.

  Eric Maisel

  Writing, Keys, Long

  Eric Maisel (2006). “A Writer's San Francisco: A Guided Journey for the Creative Soul”, p.128, New World Library

  4 Copy quote

• The writer loves the fog as it pours in; he loves the sun when the fog pours out. The rest of California is Beach Boys country, but San Francisco has that moody thing going on, those blues notes wrapped in moisture, an atmosphere that tempers California dreaming and makes life more real. The fog brings reality, but it is still a California reality, one spent outdoors the whole year round.

  Eric Maisel

  Dream, Country, Beach

  Eric Maisel (2010). “A Writer's San Francisco: A Guided Journey for the Creative Soul”, p.7, New World Library

  5 Copy quote

• 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

  4 Copy quote

• 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

  4 Copy quote

• Abstraction is itself an abstract word and has no single meaning ... Every word in our language is abstract, because it represents something else.

  Eric Maisel

  Language, Abstract, Abstraction

  4 Copy quote

• 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

  8 Copy quote

• 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

  4 Copy quote

• 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

  4 Copy quote

• 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

  5 Copy quote

• 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

  4 Copy quote

• 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

  4 Copy quote

• 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

  14 Copy quote

• The wise artist makes peace with the fact that he will understand less than he had anticipated.

  Eric Maisel

  Wise, Peace, Artist

  4 Copy quote

• The artist's task is to become a successful eccentric, a strange but wise duck able to venture out of solitary confinement and mingle among society.

  Eric Maisel

  Wise, Successful, Artist

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

  4 Copy quote

• Many people are embarrassed to create in public. It feels unseemly to them, like kissing in plain view... Make a spectacle of yourself.

  Eric Maisel

  Kissing, Views, People

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

  4 Copy quote

• Keenly aware of their limitations, artists often remain insecure even as their list of successes grows.

  Eric Maisel

  Insecure, Artist, Lists

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

  4 Copy quote

• No muse shoots darts of insight into the unsuspecting artist.

  Eric Maisel

  Artist, Muse, Darts

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

  7 Copy quote

• 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

  7 Copy quote

• If you create you will also wait, and while you're waiting you will want to be patient but not idle... responses from the world often take a long time.

  Eric Maisel

  Patience, Long, Waiting

  Eric Maisel (2000). “The Creativity Book: A Year's Worth of Inspiration and Guidance”, p.236, Penguin

  7 Copy quote

• It is the artist's job to revere beauty without being enchanted by it, to aim for it but also to aim for truth and goodness - just in case they, and not beauty, are the real things of value.

  Eric Maisel

  Beauty, Jobs, Real

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

  7 Copy quote

• 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

  7 Copy quote

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

  Eric Maisel

  Artist, Disputes, Notion

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

  4 Copy quote

• 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

  4 Copy quote

Page 4 of 5

First

← Prev

1

2

3

4

5

Next →

• facebook
• twitter
• googleplus
• email
• linkedin