Art and business may be strange bedfellows, but an artist must make room in her bed for both. Eric Maisel More Quotes by Eric Maisel More Quotes From Eric Maisel Love is the spirit that motivates the artist's journey. Eric Maisel artist journey love-is Isn't today a day to devote to craft? Isn't tomorrow? Isn't every day, routinely, until the end of time? Eric Maisel crafts tomorrow today Creativity is part sweat - not just beads of it, but sometimes buckets. Eric Maisel sweat creativity work The middle way cannot be achieved by dividing two extremes in half. Eric Maisel half two way 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. Eric Maisel feel-good new-life creative 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 Let each of us dream of a community of artists and work to make that dream a reality. Eric Maisel artist dream reality 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. Eric Maisel mad passionate artist When a thing is not done, continuing to work is the strength; but when it is done, the strength lies in stopping. Eric Maisel stopping strength lying An artist feels vulnerable to begin with; and yet the only answer is to recklessly discard more armour. Eric Maisel vulnerable artist answers Your chances of creating deeply hinge on the quality of your awareness state. Eric Maisel creating quality chance Rekindling hope, engaging in inner work, and venturing into the world amount to a complete plan for picking yourself up when you're down. Eric Maisel pick-yourself-up hope world Because she favours solitude and indwelling, an artist can live a significantly more claustrophobic life that she had ever intended. Eric Maisel being-alone creativity artist 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. Eric Maisel careers artist years Chaos is everywhere - and artists, to fashion art and live truthfully, have no choice but to invite this unwanted guest right into the studio. Eric Maisel fashion choices art 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 artist successful wise 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 abstraction abstract language 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 phrases helping long 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? Eric Maisel shining light artist A composition is an arrangement, built out of parts, that aims at seamlessness. Eric Maisel composition aim built
