“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

If you painted pictures, this does not mean that you necessarily should be an artist. [...]

[...] [And as an artist, I’d be as much intrigued by the tree’s naked structure as I had been when it bore its dense greenery.]

[...] Your own art interests have always attracted artists to our books in general, through Framework 2’s constant communication. [...]

The man has been himself an artist, therefore. [...]

In this case, however, the artists themselves are a portion of the painting, and appear within it. [...]

[...] Such attitudes not only drastically impede any artistic creativity, but the imaginative creativity necessary to deal with the nature of physical events themselves.

[...] Artist supplies and papers are piled in disarray; someone is obviously moving into the place. [...]

[...] The doctor you might have been once dreamed of a probable universe in which he would be an artist. [...]

Paintings, and for Ruburt’s benefit poetry—I certainly don’t want Ruburt to feel neglected—but paintings have their own vitality and exist independently of the artist, and are the result of a spontaneous, free, impulsive burst of giving that asks no return, and as such, because no return is expected, returns are given.

[...] Your son was an artist, and certainly prances up and down now in the person of your Ruburt; and at the time you had no understanding nor use for art as any man’s profession; and let it be said that in this respect Ruburt treats you much better than you treated him.

[...] You must not consider psychic endeavor as a rival to your art, but instead as an aid, with which the best of artists have always been blessed. [...]

[...] Bill, Ryerson, and I are artists, of course. [...]

[...] Your body is an artistic creation, formed and constantly maintained at unconscious levels, but quite in line with your beliefs about what and who you are.

[...] That’s her focus in life [and mine, too]: the full commitment to artistic production. [...]

[...] In your system of beliefs, however, it is often identified as feminine, along with the artistic productions that emerge from its creativity. [...]

[...] Pretend then that you possessed within yourself the knowledge, the sight, of all the world’s masterpieces in sculpture and art, that they throbbed and pulsed as realities within you, but that you had no physical apparatus, no knowledge of how to achieve it; that there was neither rock, nor pigment, nor source of any of these, and you ached with the yearning to produce them—and this, on an infinitesimally small scale, will perhaps give you, as an artist, some idea of the agony and the impetus that was felt.

[...] In their artistic endeavors and psychic work they were acclimated to trusting themselves. [...]

It is in your nature to use much of your energy in artistic creation. [...]

(4:35.) Truly great artistic, creative, athletic and social abilities are inherent within each human individual. [...]

As an artist alone your purpose is expression, which involves disclosure, the difference between the ideal and actual. [...]

“Society does not give a hoot about the artist. [...]

Your own artistic abilities also brought up problems, since they seemed in your mind, unconsciously, more feminine than masculine.