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TES9 Session 456 January 8, 1969 4/65 (6%) approach restricts portrait potato technique
– The Early Sessions: Book 9 of The Seth Material
– © 2014 Laurel Davies-Butts
– Session 456 January 8, 1969 9:12 PM Wednesday

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A portrait must contain a searching and a deep statement of the human condition, a reaching out toward the mystery that is another person, whether the person exists in your mind, or physical reality, or both. A portrait must contain a journey into personality, and the technique and the form will then follow naturally and spontaneously.

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As you know you are apt sometimes to use a problem with technique as a substitute problem, as a way therefore of escaping from, rather than facing, certain issues concerning the nature of emotion. (Pause.

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Now laughing loud and heartily, or crying deeply—either would serve you well, help release inner feelings and help clear the inner channels. You are trying too hard, as you know. Being an artist is a natural way of life with you. Paintings can and should emerge from you easily.

[... 16 paragraphs ...]

This restriction will show in all areas of your work if you do not break it, and you can do so. Its effects literally color all of your painting activities, and serve to reinforce the restrictions of an emotional nature. So solving one issue helps both.

[... 17 paragraphs ...]

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