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work and painting which I think are important, and which I want to get across to you, & probably you only.  The public will get the paintings, and they should be happy to get them.
While I obviously over did the Louis bit, provoking you to remind me that he died in 1962, (if only painters could remember dates) at least, two things are important. First, is the impact of the best pictures, & this is what I was getting at in the Picasso thing. It's one thing to be mesmerized by the overall effect of the work, but it is a special & different thing for a practising artist to be hit by the interior driving force of a painting, a force, that he feels and knows is both difficult to explain and, at the same time makes him not really want to try to explain it, partly because, if he does, he must ask himself where is this driving force in himself, & will it come out in his work, because he knows that it is that force he felt in the Picasso that makes art that is worth making. The mesmerization is wonderful, but that's for the fans, not the players.