“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(“The connection with anemia leads Ruburt to think of Helga Anderson, or a connection with artists or artwork.” Jane thinks that here Seth was trying to get her to say that an artistic endeavor, meaning the dream book, was involved with the object. [...]

[...] The connection with anemia leads Ruburt to think of Helga Anderson, or a connection with artists or artwork.

[...] An artist loves his painting. [...]

[...] It is the framework in which you have your experience, created by you as the artist gives his paintings their dimension.

Any spontaneity became suspect however, except artistic spontaneity. [...]

[...] But because he felt at this time unworthy, for the reasons given, then he must punish himself for its success, artistically speaking. [...]

[...] The cooperative ventures that crisscross this community of Elmira, in biological, social, spiritual, economic, political and artistic ways are staggering. [...]

I am not speaking of greatness in terms of fame, or in terms of usually understood artistic or intellectual abilities alone, but also of people whose lives have the capacity for great emotional content. [...]

[...] From one inharmonious high-pitched yell for example, if you listen, you as an artist can sense the self that was forced to make that sound, perhaps emerge with a prize, an excellent portrait, or simply an unique and individual mouth. [...]

[...] As an artist use everything.

[...] Many people, however, will find they have a natural knack for relationships with others, in which the known value cannot be easily judged, as it can, say, in the works of an artist or writer.

He had far greater faith than you that your artistic integrity would affect Prentice, so that your drawings would emerge mainly as you intended them. [...]

[...] You did feel that it was not safe to be an artist in your world. [...]

[...] This reminded me of the bitterly cold days when I did the same thing years ago while working at Artistic Card Company—the job that brought us to Elmira. [...]

He felt that for artistic, financial, and personal reasons this was necessary. [...]

[...] Be your own best artist. [...]

(Through all of our personal activities, Jane and I are intensely conscious of the cultural, scientific, artistic, and economic aspects of the world we’ve chosen to live and work in. [...]

[...] Why isn’t there at least one artist in all of the world painting today whose ability equals Rembrandt’s, and who uses that great gift to evoke the depths of compassion for the human condition as Rembrandt did? [...] Just those four artists, whose lives spanned a period of only 98 years (from 1577 to 1675), explored human insight in powerful ways. [...]

(To Rob:) Remember the private session I gave you the night before last, in which I told you that you could have developed very well as a sportsman⁷ — considering the athletic qualities involved — instead of as an artist or writer. In this life, however, you used [the elements of] your personal environment as tools for the artist. [...]

[...] Your psychic state of nervousness, fear, lack of confidence and lack of focus as far as utilizing your artistic abilities were concerned, began to build up like many encircling walls. [...]

[...] Your artistic ability does not belong to your ego, dear Joseph, though I understand as I speak that anyone on your plane identifies himself with his ego, and when he says “I am,” he means he is his ego, or his ego is.

[...] The ego enables you to use or focus your artistic ability along the lines necessary to make it effective on your plane. [...]

He wanted to shout your decision (to leave Artistic) to the skies of course, and thought he was quite reasonable by saying nothing for a while, at your request; yet secretly he thought that your attitude of silence meant that you were not proud of the decision, did not want it known, that you were acting ashamed of it and wanted it kept quiet, rather than as a triumph.

[...] One of the things Ruburt resents most about your mother is her lack of understanding of the nature of your artistic abilities. [...]

[...] At any level of your artistic development thus far, you could have cashed in with some application, and been, you felt, betrayed by money and acclaim as a certain level of development.

[...] The latest wrinkle is that the teeth reflect her concern about money, eating, and my own success as an artist...)

[...] At least it can to me, as an artist; Bill is also an artist. [...]

(My counterpart, Peter Smith, and I are both professional artists; we’re roughly of an age, with strong interests in other forms of creativity, such as writing, and in myth and fantasy.¹ A number of the similarities and differences between Jane and me should be obvious to our readers; she also does quite a lot of painting. [...]

The value of the artist was deprecated. [...] The ideas of financial competition, advocated, came into direct conflict, Joseph, with your own inclinations to be an artist. [...]

[...] And as long as you continue to think of Artistic as a poor-paying organization, so shall it be for you. [...]

[...] You are making a living as an artist at last, your triumph. [...]