Address on Eurythmy

GA 277a/1918-02-19/p010 ·1918-02-19 · English MediumMedium alignmentSome paragraph re-numbering between this translation and the German original — the locus may slip by a paragraph or two.
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The psychological process involved in the simplest things in life is already a complicated one. And as little as one might suspect it, in real artistic life, souls are actually torn between fear and shame, between blushing and turning pale. But the fact that the peculiarity of life in art presents itself to consciousness in a different way is based on something in the soul—as in the sea—that is difficult to describe and that must be known by those who want to engage in art as in the times when artistic forms were not created arbitrarily, but from the depths of spiritual life itself.

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