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This also applies to the best Louis paintings, but the problem here for me is a different, & actually more straight-forward one. It doesn't involve the number of the practising artists' interiorized doubts. I know that I whined excessively over Clem's & Michael's take, & the resulting forceful presentation of straight pictorial painting. But honestly, I known the issue of competitive fear is deeply trivial, and that is not the basic issue for me. Now I will try to make it as clear as I can what is & why.
The issue (the best straight pictoriality) is a problem because it comes up in working situations where it presents real difficulties. From your inflection over the phone & I felt that you thought I was worried over some conpetetive & comparative quality issues. Naturally, this comes up, but, do you imagine me endlessly humiliating & flagelating myself, just over that.
Leaving historicity aside, because I think my handle on that is O.K., when I work, that is, when I think visually, trying to see what I want to make, ideas come from different directions following unreliable