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Eric Maisel is a renowned teacher, born in 1947. He is known for his contributions to adult education and lifelong learning, particularly in the fields of creative writing and counseling.

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Famous Eric Maisel Quotes

“One visit with a child can supply us with enough creativity dust to last for a lifetime... Visit with children like you're the child you ought to be more often.”

Children Enough Lasts Creativity Like You Ought Lifetime Dust

Author:Eric Maisel

“Revealing secrets can bring us pain or get us into trouble, but worse pain and worse trouble await us if we keep silent...Revealing secrets can bring us pain or get us into trouble, but worse pain and worse trouble await us if we keep silent we become habitually untruthful. The door to our creativity closes. gr we become habitually untruthful. The door to our creativity closes.”

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Author:Eric Maisel

“Creativity is the gift that keeps on giving.”

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Book:Affirmations for Artists

Source: Affirmations for Artists

“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.”

Littles Walks Creativity Wall Anxiety Oneself Obsession

Book:Affirmations for Artists

Source: Affirmations for Artists

“Make creativity your religion... because creating is soulful work.”

Creativity Creating Soulful

Author:Eric Maisel

“Creativity is part sweat - not just beads of it, but sometimes buckets.”

Sometimes Work Creativity Sweat Buckets Beads

Book:Affirmations for Artists

Source: Affirmations for Artists

“The three elements of creativity are thus: loving, knowing, and doing - or heart, mind, and hands - or, as Zen Buddhist teaching has it; great faith, great question, and great courage.”

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Book:Creativity for Life: Practical Advice on the Artist's Personality, and Career from America's Foremost Creativity Coach

Source: Creativity for Life: Practical Advice on the Artist's Personality, and Career from America's Foremost Creativity Coach

“Because she favours solitude and indwelling, an artist can live a significantly more claustrophobic life that she had ever intended.”

Artist Creativity Solitude Favour Being Alone

Author:Eric Maisel

“Creativity is the marriage humanity makes with eternity.”

Humanity Creativity Eternity

Book:Affirmations for Artists

Source: Affirmations for Artists

“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.”

Self Artist Creativity Creative Doubt Risk Despair Court Self Discovery Willingness Muse Introspection Examination Susceptible Self-doubt Self-examination

Author:Eric Maisel