Learning from others

Often when you go to some course or have an idol, you learn something of some worth but at the same time you lose touch with your own way of doing. So in order to gain both, build first in your mind pictures of your own secret personal ideal and do something on your own guided by your own feelings and impressions. Once you have two separate bases to start from: the course and your own endeavours, you can after the course do something along the same lines as you learned on the course but somewhat more on your own ways, and then after some time, so that the course is no longer dominating in your mind remember your own ideals about art, the feelings that make you tick, and once again do things on your own, guided by your own ideals, now somewhat more skilled and maybe valued.