Address on Eurythmy

GA 277c/1922-08-23/p007 ·1922-08-23 · 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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If one therefore wants to capture anything eurythmically, one must extract from the human being that which is purely eurythmic. If there were figures here with beautifully painted noses and eyes and beautiful mouths, they could be beautiful paintings: but that is not what eurythmy is about; here, only what is eurythmic in the eurythmic person is painted and formed.

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