“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] It did not pay penance enough for the fact that you were working at Artistic. [...]

[...] The great artists did not use their abilities so much through the utilization of will and effort as they did through following their own natural impulses, desires, and intents. [...]

The consciousnesses is composed of the individual consciousnesses that make up the material that is within the painting, and yet there is also a gestalt consciousness that is the result of the artist’s overall conception. [...]

[...] The test object sealed in the usual double envelopes was a woodblock print, made by an artist friend of ours, Roy C. Fox, and enclosed with Roy’s Christmas card of last Christmas. [...]

[...] To sum up first, we saw that Seth had used the name of the artist who had executed the block print, Roy Fox, as a starting point for data involving Jane and Roy and me, but for some reason had not dealt with the test object itself. [...]

The act of artistic creation is therefore one to study, since it involves the intricate workings of the dual self-consciousnesses of one personality, inner data being transformed through the subconscious and greater individuality being made possible because of this.

You were quite correct, Joseph, in your feeling that art created another plane, and now let me hit you with this one: that the paintings of an artist to some degree have a consciousness of their own, not imprisoned either by the form itself.

5. As an artist I’m so used to observing our physical world in terms of forms, colors, shadows, shapes, and “negative shapes” — the patterns formed by areas between and around shadows or objects — that I sometimes have to remind myself of the obvious: that each individual in the world perceives it from his or her own viewpoint. How strange, I’ve found myself thinking, that Joe, say, doesn’t see our environment in artistic terms, since what I see is so plain to me. But then, I tell myself, Joe has a method of cognition that’s quite natural to him. If he loves flowers, for instance, he may enjoy more of a sheer emotional reaction through the appreciation of a rose than I can.

[...] Any issues with you also involved work and creativity, along with the expectations that you had of each other—not just in your married roles but as partners and colleagues in your artistic endeavors. [...]

[...] The relationship between you and Ruburt is now beginning (underlined) to approach a highly beneficial state, that will bring out the best in both of your personalities, and develop your artistic and psychic abilities to the fullest.

[...] The Voice has artistic pretensions. [...]

The doctor, you see, that you might have been and are not in this system, once dreamed of a probable universe in which he would be an artist. [...]

[...] You can tell an artist’s abilities from his paintings, as you observe them, can you not?

[...] The natural person—the creator, the artist—in Ruburt, wants the book out without any interruptions, and cares little about other issues. [...]

I am not an artist, but I know what I like as much as anyone else does.

[...] Each artist has other overall concepts to work with besides those regarding his art.

[...] And as they emerge full figure so will you emerge in your stature as an artist, and in confidence.

[...] What you would call time is manipulated as an artist would manipulate pigment. [...]

[...] Many artists, poets, and musicians are Speakers, translating one world in terms of another, forming psychic structures that exist in both with great vitality — structures that may be perceived from more than one reality at once.

[...] Years ago, when it looked—generally speaking, now: I am simplifying—as if you might be swallowed by Artistic, you rebelled and became ill. [...]

Perhaps that does not seem to be what you had in mind as an artist. [...]

(I told Jane that I’d had a half-remembered dream of my own last night, involving my going back to work for Stu Komer of the old Artistic plant. [...]