99 Quotes by Eric Maisel

I am one powerful self made up of so many selves that sometimes I throw myself a get-acquainted party.

A time comes, after years in the trenches, when the artist begins to fathom what his career has looked like so far and what it will look like if he continues as he’s proceeded.

The artist’s task is to become a successful eccentric, a strange but wise duck able to venture out of solitary confinement and mingle among society.

We are the sort of creature who not only needs to put up firewood and food for the winter but who must also predict the distant future, make decisions about who or what created the universe and what sort of principles and path we should follow, deal with our fellow difficult and dangerous creatures, and in other ways make sense of things that would overtax any creature.

An artist who is too self-centered is liable to exhibit faults he abhors: carelessness, callousness, and even downright cruelty.

Artists disbelieve and dispute society’s most cherished notions.

While artists fervently believe that the art marketplace was invented by the devil and remains in his henchman’s hands, they have no choice but to carry long spoons and sup there.

It is the job of each artist to believe in the possibility of meaningful, substantial, and sustainable change.

People who think a lot are more prone to mania than people who do not think a lot. That intelligent, creative, and thoughtful people are the ones more regularly afflicted by mania is beyond question.