Address on Eurythmy

Therefore, in a kind of expressive art, what is purely eurythmy was brought out of the human being, everything else was left out, and in this way one actually only obtains an artistic expression. For it is the case in all art that only with certain artistic means can one express what art can represent. You cannot make a statue speak: you must therefore express what you want to convey as a spiritual expression in the shaping of the mouth, of the whole face. So it is of no use to paint naturalistic people here, but rather to paint what immediately comes out as eurythmic. Now, of course, when I speak of the veil here, one cannot change the veil after every sound: but one gradually discovers that once one has put oneself into this emotional nuance, into this mood for a poem, then the whole poem has a "mood or a b-mood. Then you can arrange the whole poem in a certain veil color.