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where cause and effect have fused and become one — where line,
form, colour, and mass are intermingling in perfect rythmic balance.
This it is the Artist calls “‘sensing the Motif.”

Thus it is that the Artist, having become awakened by the emotional
feeling to his creative impulse, is driven into action by overpower-
ing creative desire. He it is who, being so driven, must always and
forever be seeing new Motifs in every step of his life—who must
create and cannot stop if he would. He it is who must analyze, must
search out form and essentials, must construct and reconstruct, must
know all the detailed parts of his creation so deeply and under-
stand them so well that in his finished work he will have the cour-
age and the profound knowledge to sacrifice all unessentials for the
true understanding and perfect emotional expression of his original
“Motif.’’ Here it is that the mind of the Artist uses its intellectual
powers of analysis—until having reached the profoundest depths
of its analytical ability, Will steps in and by selection and logical
organization, forces restraint upon the conscious power of con-
struction.

He is the Artist who makes, of his Motif, life; whose creation has
gone through all experiences of Life and comes finally to be old, age
old, and new, ever new, even as life itself. He it is to whom his art
is an establishing of sentiment in the creation of his analyzed Motif.
He it is who lives but to recall, to recognize, and even to forecast
‘those peaks of life where, through suffering, joy, weakness and
strength, a great moving action appears from the depths of nature
or humanity for a moment, to be submerged a moment later in the
ever-moving, never-ceasing rythmic Action of Life. SYBIL HILL.