Quotes from Eric Maisel

Creativity is the marriage humanity makes with eternity.

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

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

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.

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

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.

Let each of us dream of a community of artists and work to make that dream a reality.

Make creativity your religion... because creating is soulful work.

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

Art is manipulation, the management of material, the directing of fate... Who does that directing?

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

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

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

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

Artists are often poignantly careless about making and keeping friends.

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

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

Love is the spirit that motivates the artist's journey.