Understand herself

”…Early artists hoped to understand the very nature of creativity itself as they tried to mimic earth’s forms…painting [was] functional in ways that I will describe in our next book and ‘aesthetic’. But…painting has always involved primarily [the artists'] attempt to understand her self and her world. The original functions of art-meaning…. painting...specifically, have been largely forgotten. The true artist in those terms was always primarily, in your terms again, a psychic or mystic. Her specific art was both her method of understanding her own creativity and a way of exploring the vast creativity of the universe-and also served as a container or showcase that displayed her knowledge as best she could” Deleted sessions Vol 5, page 206