All genuine art springs from the spiritual world

 

Rudolf Steiner:  "Every artistic activity has also its esoteric side. For the work that we carry on as artists has to receive its impulses from the spiritual world, and must therefore be rooted in the esoteric. If we forget this, if we forget that all genuine art springs from the spiritual world, then we must either resign ourselves to be guided by rules, or submit to an inartistic naturalism. To routine and mannerisms, or to a naturalism that is lacking in art — to one or the other we are condemned if we forget that what we create artistically has always, without exception, to receive its form from the formative activity of the spirit."

Source: September 19, 1924  GA 282