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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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“The artist who pictures sounds as colours, who feels the difference in microns between one sea green and another... is not attending to what the world considers important.”

World Feels Important Artist Sound Differences Sea Green Colour Attending

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“If you bring your sexual impulses to your creative work... you'll be working from deep in the genetic code, down where life wants to make new life and feel good in the process.”

Ifs Want Feels Process Creative Feel Good Impulse Code New Life Creative Work

Book:The Creativity Book: A Year's Worth of Inspiration and Guidance

Source: The Creativity Book: A Year's Worth of Inspiration and Guidance

“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.”

Ifs Thinking Feels Self Hours Doubt Anxiety Exhausted Exhaustion Self-doubt Procrastinating

Book:The Creativity Book: A Year's Worth of Inspiration and Guidance

Source: The Creativity Book: A Year's Worth of Inspiration and Guidance

“While it may feel natural to devote yourself to your creative work and succumb to feelings of separation and alienation, it nevertheless isn't a terrific idea in terms of your overall happiness and health.”

Feels May Ideas Feelings Term Natural Creative Health Separation Nevertheless Alienation Terrific Creative Work

Book:The Creativity Book: A Year's Worth of Inspiration and Guidance

Source: The Creativity Book: A Year's Worth of Inspiration and Guidance

“Our desire is to grow so quiet and to work so deeply that we participate fully in the mystery in which we're embedded. When we manage to do that we feel as if we have merged with the universe; for the duration of that experience we feel immortal.”

Ifs Feels Desire Universe Grows Mystery Quiet Manage Immortality Immortal Embedded Duration

Book:The Creativity Book: A Year's Worth of Inspiration and Guidance

Source: The Creativity Book: A Year's Worth of Inspiration and Guidance

“Many people are embarrassed to create in public. It feels unseemly to them, like kissing in plain view... Make a spectacle of yourself.”

People Feels Views Kissing Embarrassed

Book:Making Your Creative Mark: Nine Keys to Achieving Your Artistic Goals

Source: Making Your Creative Mark: Nine Keys to Achieving Your Artistic Goals

“An artist feels vulnerable to begin with; and yet the only answer is to recklessly discard more armour.”

Feels Artist Answers Vulnerable Armour

Book:Affirmations for Artists

Source: Affirmations for Artists