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An artist must struggle to accept the shape of this universe - and achieve some important successes...
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Abstraction is itself an abstract word and has no single meaning... Every word in our language is abstract, because it represents something else.
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An artist feels vulnerable to begin with; and yet the only answer is to recklessly discard more armour.
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The artist's personality, built upon strong desires and compassionate vision, is by its nature prone to depression.
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The middle way cannot be achieved by dividing two extremes in half.
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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.
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We are on the threshold of understanding a shining idea: that each individual's life can have meaning, even if the universe has none.
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Life is too short not to create, not to love, and not to lend a helping hand to our brothers and sisters.
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This individual is regularly nominated not only by himself but by others as well: by the ordinary townsfolk who beg him to save their town, their world, or their galaxy because they see that he has the strength and integrity that they lack.
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Your chances of creating deeply hinge on the quality of your awareness state.
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Few people actually nominate themselves in this way. Most defer to the meaning-making apparatus of their culture, taking comfort in the fact that others have built a meaning nest for them. This built-in cover allows them to avoid taking responsibility and at the same time causes them to grow grandiose, narcissistic, and egotistical. As soon as you put on the robes of your culture and add gravity to your mere humanness by wearing the badge of your profession, your club, your gang, or your clan, you … refuse to engage in the process of personal meaning-making, with its requirements of honesty and self-awareness.
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A key to a long, productive writing life is finding ways to support that life, emotionally and existentially.
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To define what we are is to reduce and distort what we are: to say that we are nothing but our desires or nothing but our self-interest is to misrepresent us.
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I nominate myself means I won't follow. This isn't hubris: it is simply the fruit of your decision to live on your own terms.
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You nominate yourself to be the one who will courageously do what you think ought to be done, even if everyone is pressing you to do something else.
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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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Live intensely and dangerously. The world may not depend on your efforts, but you do.
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When the artist activates his being, awakens to his surroundings, and sets himself the task of creating, connections are made out of conscious awareness that return coalesced as inspiration.
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Artists disbelieve and dispute society's most cherished notions.
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Artists are often poignantly careless about making and keeping friends.
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The artist can't paint, sing, or dance without emotion: if he does, he is a machine masquerading as a person.
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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.
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While some part of the artwork may fail, the whole may have its own unique importance.
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Many people are embarrassed to create in public. It feels unseemly to them, like kissing in plain view... Make a spectacle of yourself.
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A composition is an arrangement, built out of parts, that aims at seamlessness.
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Yet would we die as some have done: Beating a way for the rising sun.
Arna Bontemps
Eric Maisel
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Born:
January 14, 1947
(age 77)
Bio:
Eric Maisel is an American psychotherapist, teacher, coach, author and atheist. His most popular books include Fearless Creating, The Van Gogh's Blues, Coaching the Artist Within, and The Atheist's Way.
Known for:
The Van Gogh Blues (2002)
Coaching the Artist Within (2005)
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