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Now as men wonder about what was Mona Lisa thinking, so let them be so intrigued and so involved that they want to hear your prophet’s unspoken words. Put yourself in his place, and with all of his capacities, and with his wisdom, and what would you be saying, and what emotion would move the muscles of your face?

Look out through his eyes, and cry out through his lips. I had my reasons (smile) for introducing these questions pertaining to the painting this evening—to make available to you certain information that you had, the kinds of questions to ask yourself in other paintings in the future.

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.

You identify with the prophet, not only as yourself but as the representative of your kind. Therefore the question is yours with all the intense yearning to know within it. But it is also every man’s question, and herein lies its strength.

Let the prophet therefore be yourself, and yet let him also stand for every other man. In speaking honestly for yourself, you therefore speak also for others, and intuitively they know this.

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.