In pocket-size and journal-size editions, this sketchbook of inspiring quotes from artists in every field helps readers connect with their own creative process. Includes quotes from Norman Mailer, Picasso, Janice Joplin, Mozart, Georgia O'Keefe, and others.

Artists Speak: A Sketchbook

MAISEL, ERIC

Harper-San Francisco

In pocket-size and journal-size editions, this sketchbook of inspiring quotes from artists in every field helps the reader connect with his or her own creative process.

Harpercollins

We've all felt the sting of criticism . . . Sometimes painful barbs from friends, family, coworkers, or strangers can lodge in our minds and eat away at our core. When you allow criticism--even self-criticism--to affect you that powerfully, it can be toxic. And if you don't break the cycle, toxic criticism can make you sick, strain relationships, and prevent you from fulfilling your dreams. But you don't have to live that way! By using the proven strategies in Toxic Criticism, you can deflect any hurtful comment that comes your way, rationally decide whether the criticism has any validity, and, if you choose, give a calculated response or use it as an opportunity to make a positive change. Once you've mastered the techniques in Toxic Criticism, you'll be able to: <ul>
<li>Dismiss negative comments before they make you upset </li>
<li>Take away the power of criticism by believing in yourself </li>
<li>Live a positive life, driven by feeling of self-worth instead of self-loathing </li>
<li>Silence your inner critic, and listen to the voice of confidence </li>
</ul>

Toxic Criticism: Break the Cycle with Friends, Family, Coworkers and Yourself

Self-Help

Motivational

McGraw=Hill

"Murder in Berlin is moody, compelling and completely wonderful! Thomas Hill is a little Joe Pike and a little Arkady Renko but wholly original. You won't soon forget Thomas Hill and the web of secrets that brings him to Berlin." - Cynthia Sterling, international bestselling author With Murder in Berlin, noted psyctherapist Eric Maisel PhD delivers an impressive page-turning exercise in suspense and intrigue. For many years, Dr. Maisel - the author of over 40 books - has conducted highly-popular "Deep Writing" Workshops around the globe. These workshops explore the unique challenges that both published and unpublished writers face, and provide the opportunity to resolve longstanding issues around committing, planning and doing, generating mental energy, achieving a centered presence, mastering anxiety, and maintaining a writing life. Practicing what he preaches, in Murder in Berlin Dr. Maisel demonstrates intense, masterful prowess in rendering both the positive and negative machinations of the human mind and spirit. Thomas Hill is sent to investigate the murder of Michael Silverstein, a prosperous Jewish entrepreneur who against the odds has made a life for himself in modern-day Berlin. Hill must make sense of a cast of characters that includes Turkish gangs, Arab artists, neo-Nazis, Jewish immigrants from the former Soviet Union, and the Christian family into which Silverstein married-characters that make modern-day Berlin one of the most interesting cities on earth ... all the while dealing with his own shadowy past.

Murder in Berlin: A Novel

Literature & Fiction

New Street Communications, LLC

This workbook helps people who appear in the spotlight to successfully overcome performance anxiety. Techniques and exercises are offered by this skilled author-therapist who has long treated artists, actors, musicians, and dancers, along with "non-theatrical" clients.

Fearless Presenting: "A Self-Help Guide for Anyone Who Speaks, Sells, or Performs in Public"

Back Stage Books

• The definitive book on overcoming performance anxiety • Helpful for performers of all types: salespeople, executives, teachers— anyone who must speak in public • Practical, step-by-step guidance plus spaces for journaling and interactive exercises • Replaces ISBN 0-8230-8834-0, Fearless Presenting Actors aren’t the only ones who get stage fright. Salespeople, teachers, executives—anyone who ever has to speak to a group of any size needs Performance Anxiety. This book shows how to approach public presentations calmly and comfortably, without sweaty palms and a pounding heart. Effective anxiety-management techniques and practical, step-by-step workbook exercises—plus thoughtful guidance from the author, a licensed psychotherapist—make this book uniquely enlightening and empowering for anyone in the spotlight.

Performance Anxiety

Whether you are currently a working, aspiring, or student artist, you will find in Staying Sane in the Arts the special understanding and guidance you need to meet the challenges of a life in the arts. Based on San Francisco therapist Eric Maisel's years of counseling actors, writers, painters, dancers, and creative artists in other disciplines, as well as on his own writing career, it offers a comprehensive look at the psychological and business issues all artists inevitably face. Going beyond the myths and stereotypes of the artist's life, Dr. Maisel presents insightful, thought-provoking analysis and many practical suggestions for enhancing the possibilities for an artist's thriving in his or her chosen field. Topics covered include what lies behind the puzzle of the artistic personality, why the artistic personality often is prone to moodiness and depression, and what the artist can do to remain balanced, how artists become subject to a multitude of blocks, and what can be done to avoid or overcome them, how artists can better understand the world of business and develop personal strategies to succeed, and why artists must complement their need for isolation with a healthy dose of community-building. Staying Sane in the Arts is the survival manual that creative and performing artists have long dreamed of. No art school education, even one bolstered by real-world experience as a working artist, is complete without the sensitive and informative advice found in this book. Its vision of the possibility to remain true to one's unique perspective while fully functioning in the common world will inspire artists at every level.

Staying Sane In the Arts

Arts & Photography

Tarcher

Examines the unique emotional, psychological, and career challenges facing those who choose a life in the arts and offers practical advice for meeting those challenges successfully

A Life in the Arts (Inner Work Book)

Individual Artists

For writers, painters, or performers in any field, new hope for overcoming creative blocks and finishing the art of their dreams. The blank page, empty canvas, or uncarved stone will often fill artists with dread. But so may the thought of finishing, showing, or even selling their work. It is in this "artistic anxiety" that creative blocks begin. With an understanding that could only be gained through years of experience in counseling artists, writers, and performers, Eric Maisel, Ph.D. discusses each stage of creation-wishing, choosing, starting, working, completing, selling--and the anxieties particular to each. He then shows how these inhibiting tensions can be turned to artistic advantages, how truth and beauty arrive in the work of art precisely because, and only when, anxiety has been understood, embraced, and resolved. Fearless Creatingguides the reader, whether an experienced artist or someone just starting out, past the pitfalls that appear in each stage of the process. By following Dr. Maisel's exercises related both to the world at hand and the ongoing struggles of artistic life, readers will emerge from this book with a completed work of art and a new perspective on their potential to be a fearless creator.

Fearless Creating: A Step-by-Step Guide To Starting and Completing Your Work of Art

Penguin Publishing Group

Meditations and guidance for creative and performing artists and the creative spirit in each of us, to provide self-help and inspiration. To create is to take serious risks. An understanding of the affirmation process is an invaluable resource for the creative risk-taker. In Affirmations for Artists, Eric Maisel provides keen insight into the challenges to create life and the solutions that bring joy and success. The descriptions of artists’ issues that this book contains, and the affirmations and quotations it offers in response to them, will help you become a stauncher, wiser, and more loving friend to your own creative nature.

Affirmations for Artists

TarcherPerigee

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Artists Speak: A Sketchbook

Artists Speak: A Sketchbook

Toxic Criticism: Break the Cycle with Friends, Family, Coworkers and Yourself

Murder in Berlin: A Novel

Fearless Presenting: "A Self-Help Guide for Anyone Who Speaks, Sells, or Performs in Public"

Performance Anxiety

Staying Sane In the Arts

A Life in the Arts (Inner Work Book)

Fearless Creating: A Step-by-Step Guide To Starting and Completing Your Work of Art

Affirmations for Artists