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Eric Maisel (born in 1947) is an American psychotherapist, teacher, coach, author and atheist. His most popular books include Fearless Creating (1995), The Van Gogh’s Blues (2002), Coaching the Artist Within (2005), and The Atheist’s Way (2009).

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When you consciously decide to breathe more slowly and deeply, you alert your body to the fact that you want it to behave differently. You are not just changing your breathing pattern, you are making a full-body announcement that you are entering into a different relationship with your mind and your body.

Alert, Breathing, Decide, Mind, Relationship

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

Block, Creative, Dark, Fear, Guess

Artists disbelieve and dispute society's most cherished notions.

Artist, Artists, Dispute, Disputes, Notion, Notions

The artist's personality, built upon strong desires and compassionate vision, is by its nature prone to depression.

Artist, Depression, Prone, Strong

Artists are often poignantly careless about making and keeping friends.

Artist, Careless, Friends, Friendship, Keeping, Making

Ambition is vital, but dangerous: it is a keen motive and a driving force, but over what edge can it drive the artist?

Ambition, Artist, Drive, Driving, Motive

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.

Helping, Long, Phrases, Poetic, Rules, Valid

Creativity requires introspection, self-examination, and a willingness to take risks. Because of this, artists are perhaps more susceptible to self-doubt and despair than those who do not court the creative muses.

Artist, Creativity, Despair, Introspection, Self

An alive piece of art may be more alive than much of its audience, and with this odd truth artists must make peace.

Alive, Art, Audience, Odd, Peace, Pieces

To obsess too virulently is to walk alone in anxiety. But to obsess too little is to wall oneself off from one's own creativity.

Anxiety, Creativity, Obsess, Oneself, Virulently, Wall

Keenly aware of their limitations, artists often remain insecure even as their list of successes grows.

Artist, Grows, Insecure, Limitations, List, Lists

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

Desire, Dream, Expect, Real, Release

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

Actively, Artist, Desire, Play, Rigors

Who knows how many artists fail because the light that shines through them is defracted in a thousand directions and not concentrated in a single beam?

Artist, Beam, Fail, Knows, Light, Shining

Isn't today a day to devote to craft? Isn't tomorrow? Isn't every day, routinely, until the end of time?

Crafts, Day, Today, Tomorrow

When you flow like water you bring all of your talents and resources to your creative work. . . Flow around every obstacle you encounter, including any you've erected yourself.

Creative, Encounter, Encounters, Flow, Talents, Water

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.

Anxiety, Created, Procrastinate, Self, Thinking, Working

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

Artist, Carelessness, Cruelty, Downright, Ego, Self

Whatever pain and suffering you've experienced in your life has been a blessing at least in this one regard: you now know some true things that you couldn't have learned any other way.

Blessing, Know, Life, Pain, Regard, Suffering

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.

Art, Artists, Believe, Hands, Remains

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