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waste
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(9:54.) You tried to separate emotions from work—an impossibility. Compare for a moment, if you can, your love of technique in a painting with the way you write. You have been searching for a larger-than-life technique—looking for the greater dimension in which beloved details rest—and only your own ideas of economy have hampered you. There is greater economy in what you think of (underlined three times) as waste—a divine economy in which “all” waste is lovingly used and transformed.
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Most of this is out in the open, but you did not understand the connections that existed between your ideas about the dryer and food and frames, and how they applied to your mental and physical habits. Your art is set off by your frames—so you deny your paintings their natural setting.
The frame connects the painting with the world, and yet divides it from it in the most beautiful of fashions. It makes little difference whether you buy a washer, or ever use your dryer or dishwasher, but it does make a difference that you understand your feelings about these items, and know how those feelings connect with your deeper activities.
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It is foolish to say “Why does it take so much time to learn?” For each learning process is highly unique, and contains within it particular achievements that you yourself want; and these achievements not only rise above the difficulties, but in the greater view the steps are seen as steps “upward”—the individualized problems understood as the same kind of challenges you might set for yourself to conquer in a painting, or as part of the entire creative process.
When a masterpiece is created everything else is forgotten, and so it is with life situations. It is silly in painting to say “Why did I at first choose that color, which did not work, instead of the final completed hue?” You have in art underpainting. In life you work with many “underpaintings” at once—and while it may seem at any given level that one underpainting lacks or is weak, later it will be seen as an important part of the whole.
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