1 result for (book:tes9 AND session:465 AND stemmed:answer)
9/70 (13%)
prophet
background
painting
lips
figure
[... 24 paragraphs ...]
Your prophet’s lips move. To whom is his implied speech spoken—to a god he understands, to a god he does not understand, to the elements or to a part of himself that he knows exists and cannot reach. (Smile.) You should sense or know the answers, now, or as the painting progresses.
[... 8 paragraphs ...]
And perhaps in painting your picture the answer to the question asked by your prophet will also come to both of you. Does the question provide its own answer, or is there another who will provide the answer, or does the prophet question in vain? Does anyone hear his question but himself?
(At break of course I had told Jane about the answer I had received concerning what the prophet was saying. See page 246.)
Do his words go back into the background from which he himself emerged, and does the answer emerge also? Or is there any clear answer to his question? (Smile; pause, eyes closed.) Or is the question itself the important thing, whether or not there is any answer to it in the terms in which it is asked? All of these issues are a part of your painting, implied in every line of its conception, but I want you to see consciously the implications of the figure, and the overall implications of the figure in context with the background.
[... 4 paragraphs ...]
“What am I?” is one question. Then comes the wonder—“What am I that I can even ask such a question?” And the answer to the second question answers the first.
[... 2 paragraphs ...]
You ask yourself the same questions as you paint the painting, and the directed unity and focus will provide exhilaration and strength to it. And the need, so strongly implied, will also provide the answer and the means.
[... 2 paragraphs ...]
If you speak for yourself only, or for mankind only, there is a short circuit. Yourself as mankind—this is the answer (pointing to me)—not to the original question but to the identification in art.
[... 12 paragraphs ...]
I will answer them.
[... 4 paragraphs ...]
(“That would be good.” And this too brought many questions to mind. After the session Jane and I speculated about just how this might be done. It would be a new situation, as far as we knew. Would Seth relay my questions to Van Elver, then deliver the answers, or what? There were lots of possibilities.)
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