Whatever pain and suffering you've experienced in your life has been a blessing at least in this one regard: you now know some true things that you couldn't have learned any other way. Eric Maisel More Quotes by Eric Maisel More Quotes From Eric Maisel The artist, who must venture into the studio and risk there, and then venture into the marketplace and risk again, is obliged to learn how her defences work, so that she can drop and raise her guard instantly. Eric Maisel venture risk artist An artist... must actively caress wonder: for fascination, like the desire to play, can be eradicated by the rigors of living. Eric Maisel artist play desire Make creativity your religion... because creating is soulful work. Eric Maisel soulful creating creativity 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. Eric Maisel void wonder reality Remind yourself of the value of detaching from work that's out of your hands and committing to new work that wants to be born. Eric Maisel new-work progress hands I am one powerful self made up of so many selves that sometimes I throw myself a get-acquainted party. Eric Maisel party powerful self Go directly to work' means... when an idea strikes, you drop everything and when your work bell tolls, you answer it. Eric Maisel tolls mean ideas A long, deep breath is the equivalent of a full stop and the key to centering. Eric Maisel centering keys long A wild person with a calm mind can make anything. Eric Maisel calm-mind calm mind While some part of the artwork may fail, the whole may have its own unique importance. Eric Maisel failing unique may The artist is a god, but he is also an idiot. That is the human way. Eric Maisel artist humanity way The artist must possess at least as much conviction as does his enemy, the dogmatic, mealy-mouthed, anti-art bigot. Eric Maisel doe enemy art 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 silentÂ… we become habitually untruthful. The door to our creativity closes. gr we become habitually untruthful. The door to our creativity closes. Eric Maisel creativity pain doors 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. Eric Maisel differences artist sea 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. Eric Maisel artist book moving The strange, unbeautiful face beautiful in its ugliness; the perfect, beautiful face ugly in its perfection. Eric Maisel perfection beautiful beauty 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 real beauty jobs 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 pieces alive art Artists disbelieve and dispute society's most cherished notions. Eric Maisel disputes notion artist Art is manipulation, the management of material, the directing of fate... Who does that directing? Eric Maisel manipulation fate art
