“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] Ruburt has always been gifted artistically, as you have Joseph. [...]

[...] As an artist, I’m very conscious of whether I think the “package” equals its contents, though since she is verbally oriented this is less important to Jane.

[...] Seth has said again and again that these changes represent improvements growing out of our better understanding of our beliefs, our artistic/creative work, and indeed our whole life-style. [...]

[...] Within our national orientations, within our religious and secular, scientific and artistic structures, we are choosing to go to the extremes of “good” and “bad,” and to deal with the consequences, all stewing together in what seems like an impossible mix of reason and emotion, learning and joy, pain and violence, and life and death. [...]

To a lesser degree, you function along these lines in varying roles when you exist simultaneously as a member of a family, a community and a nation and as an artist or writer. [...]

Rob’s painting of the fourteenth-century artist from whom Seth gleans advice on painting techniques. [...]

[...] He is an artist and schoolteacher.

[...] You paint because you love to paint, and forget what an artist is supposed to be or not to be. [...]

By then I’d lost many months from my job as a commercial artist, which was work I’d returned to several years earlier to help ease our financial pressures. [...] We were very dissatisfied with our status quo: After years of work, Jane had managed to publish but a few poems and a few pieces of science fantasy (several short stories and two brief novels), and in my own view I wasn’t making it as the kind of artist I wanted to be. [...]

[...] There’s bound to be some lopsidedness to our growth, as we form psychological ‘art’ throughout our entire lives — or learn to live … artistically. [...]

[...] Artistic expression itself was considered highly suspect if it traveled outside of the accepted precepts, and particularly of course if it led others to take action against those precepts. [...]

[...] It was precisely in the area of artistic expression that the inspirations might quickest leap through the applied dogmatic framework. [...]