99 Quotes by Eric Maisel

Even though we require flexibility to negotiate our changing circumstances, we are rather built to anxiously turn away from alternatives.

A long, deep breath is the equivalent of a full stop and the key to centering.

How can a person brim over with life energy and big plans one moment and feel suicidal the next? She can cycle exactly that way because of the god-bug syndrome.

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

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.

While some part of the artwork may fail, the whole may have its own unique importance.

Boredom is the thing that regularly arrives between excitements and episodes of meaning: it is as natural as the tides, and in it an artist can drown.

Hurray for criticism, if it means that an artist’s voice is heard. Let the wise artist invite criticism and survive it when it comes.

That as a smart person, whose brain races faster and harder than the next person’s, you can’t accomplish something like stopping your racing mind from worrying doesn’t mean that you have a disorder or that you are a failure.