75. Eurythmy Performance

GA 277b/1920-08-15/p008 ·1920-08-15 · English HighHigh alignmentThis translation's paragraph count matches the German original — the locus maps cleanly to the same paragraph in DE.
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What Goethe applied to the form of plants, and later extended to the form of animals, is here to be used – but elevated to the artistic – for the eurythmic art. From knowledge, Goethe also builds a bridge to skill, to artistic skill. And Goethe has a beautiful saying that should be taken up by every artistic disposition: “When nature begins to reveal her secrets, one longs for her most worthy interpreter, art.” This brings us to true knowledge, which does not live in abstractions but in direct observation, and to artistic creation.

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