Fourth Lecture

My dear friends, how do we actually feel that some imagination, some inspiration, some intuition contains something objective? We feel it because when we have this imagination, inspiration, intuition, we experience it inwardly: they do not present themselves as something that has sprung from us, but they present themselves in the whole cosmos and stand harmoniously within this cosmos. A concept of art, an idea of art, will have to take hold of people in the future, so that they feel an inner necessity: that which is created artistically does not belong to them themselves, but is created in them by the gods, because the gods want it in the world, they want it to be created, they want it to be there.