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You take your artistic ability on trust. You consider it a part of you. Ruburt considers his writing a part of him. There are people highly gifted with artistic abilities, who have never trusted those abilities, did not consider them a part of themselves, and practically speaking have been unable to use them.
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The life that you two personally have, has been brought about through trust and expectation. Your artistic endeavors are the result of trust and expectation. Now, only a comparative few operate in such a manner that their entire lives, in all areas, bring about the results they think they are after. The danger is in concentrating upon the lacks, the “sore spots,” building up greater concentrations of mistrust. In very important issues, both you and Ruburt are in excellent health. In every important manner, you personally are in the best of health.
[... 2 paragraphs ...]
One had to do with the in quotes “problem” of artistic creativity versus womanhood, and this along with personal background brought about a distrust of the feminine organs. Not in such a manner that illness would result therein, or, say, diseased organs, but only so far as function was concerned.
[... 19 paragraphs ...]
Now when your idea of truth, or art, or artistic integrity, is connected with detail then the charged areas show themselves. This applies often in your paintings, and can in certain areas of my book where you are involved.
One wrong or bad apple, you feel, can rot the whole basket. When your idea of artistic vision is concerned then, each detail is of utmost importance to you. Details represent steps to truth, to you, in those areas. Other parts of you realize quite will the importance for example of inspiration, in which the steps or details do not appear in logical terms, so you allow both aspects to balance themselves.
[... 30 paragraphs ...]
Emotional feeling will also emerge as you remember people and faces that you have known, and places that you have loved. Many excellent artists have drawn from this source. The willingness to trust opens up these and many other doorways to perception and creativity.
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