An artist must struggle to ...

An artist must struggle to accept the shape of this universe - and achieve some important successes.
An artist must struggle to accept the shape of this universe - and achieve some important successes.
 Eric Maisel

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Being self-made is a state of mind, and once you put that mentality to work, your success will come.
 Dave East
A lot of people change for good. Some people just fall off. Just trying to progress in anything, no matter what you're doing, I feel like any progression you make... some people aren't gonna be around you that were around you.
 Dave East
We are in a survival mentality, and that's hard-wired into our humanity, because we are the winners of an evolutionary struggle of millions and millions and millions of years.
 John Shelby Spong
I've always had the mentality of: work hard, get to bed early, focus - and let your work speak for itself.
 Olivia Palermo
If a warrior is to succeed at anything, the success must come gently, with a great deal of effort but with no stress or obsession.

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Creativity is the gift that keeps on giving.
 Eric Maisel
An ability to choose is a necessity for the artist.
 Eric Maisel
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.
 Eric Maisel
Abstraction is itself an abstract word and has no single meaning ... Every word in our language is abstract, because it represents something else.
 Eric Maisel
Artists have wild desires and a terrible hunger to achieve... Without it they haven't the juice for striving or loving. But desire also can make them greedy and turn dreams into unrealizable obsessions.
 Eric Maisel