"The task of art is to take hold……" — Rudolf Steiner
"The task of art is to take hold of the shining, the radiance, the manifestation, of that which as spirit weaves and lives throughout the world. All genuine art seeks the spirit. Even when art wishes to represent the ugly, the disagreeable, it is concerned, not with the sensory - disagreeable as such, but with the spiritual which proclaims its nature in the midst of unpleasantness. If the spiritual shines through the ugly, even the ugly becomes beautiful. In art it is upon a relation to the spiritual that beauty depends."
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112 Quotes by Rudolf Steiner
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When we raise ourselves through meditation to what unites us with the spirit, we quicken something within us that is…
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Man is not a being who stands still, he is a being in the process of becoming. The more he…
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For what lies inside the human being is the whole spiritual cosmos in condensed form. In our inner organism we…
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Receive the children in reverence, educate them in love, and send them forth in freedom.
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The outer world, with all its phenomena, is filled with divine splendour, but we must have experienced the divine within…
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