99 Quotes by Eric Maisel

If, because of anxiety and self-doubt, you procrastinate and only think about working, you’ll feel more exhausted than if you’d created for hours.

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.

Settle into mystery as you would settle into your most comfortable chair. Listen. Have visions. Lose yourself.

An ability to choose is a necessity for the artist.

The middle way cannot be achieved by dividing two extremes in half.

You can sweat by not practicing or you can pick up your clarinet. There’s good sweat and there’s bad sweat.

Love is the spirit that motivates the artist’s journey. The love may sublime, raw, obsessive, passionate, awful. or thrilling, but whatever its quality, it’s a powerful motive in the artist’s life.

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

Dream, but expect nothing. Desire, but expect nothing. Hope, but expect nothing. Release your need to control and gain real control.