The basis of artistic creation is not what is, but what might be; not the real, but the possible. Artists create according to the same principles as nature, but they apply them to individual entities, while nature, to use a Goethean expression, thinks nothing of individual things. She is always building and destroying, because she wants to achieve perfection, not in the individual thing, but in the whole.
Rudolf SteinerWherever love and compassion are active in life, we can perceive the magic breath of the spirit blowing through the sense world.
Rudolf SteinerWe find the instrument for the Knowledge of God in ourselves But we find God everywhere.
Rudolf SteinerMost naughtiness arises because the children are bored and lack a relationship with the teacher.
Rudolf SteinerIn order to approach a creation as sublime as the Bhagavad-Gita with full understanding it is necessary to attune our soul to it.
Rudolf SteinerThe 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.
Rudolf Steiner