76. About the Photographs of the Construction

GA 246/1918-06-30/p055 ·1918-06-30 · English High

Record: listeners' notes. Written from listeners' notes, summaries, or memory rather than a shorthand transcript. The wording is the note-taker's as much as Steiner's: weigh a single striking phrase here far more cautiously than the same phrase in a stenographic volume, and do not rest an argument on one word. Evidence: «Nach zum Teil bruchstückhaften Mitschriften» (From transcripts that are in part fragmentary). The publisher's description of the volume, as mirrored on AnthroWiki (GA 246), which also speaks of "fragmentarischen Hörernotizen und Vortragszusammenfassungen". The translation is the maintainer's, not a published one.

You also learn from these things, and we have learned a lot. A lot of artistic work has gone into it. The lady who worked on this group in particular has gradually grown in the creation of the form, also in the creation of that which essentially lives in this form. And with this group something is to be put into the world that actually gives the basic impulse of the whole of anthroposophy and also that which is to be linked to anthroposophy as a secondary impulse. No finger, no hand should be anything other than created out of the spiritual. All gestures, all gestures that are artistic forms, are expressive as a whole, as otherwise only facial expressions are. [But here everything is gesture; they are not forms at rest, but moving forms. You had to overcome everything heavy in sculpture, that was very difficult.

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