Translations:Benutzer:Arian/Klett-Mini-Test/662/en

The cultivation of a powerful feeling relates, on the one hand, to the relationship we seek to the things and beings of nature, and on the other, to all that plays out between human being and human being. All of this presses toward the form of expression of the artistic. If one, for example, holds thinking consciously back and allows the gaze to rest upon a sun-permeated, ripening field of grain, the eye seeks, groping, for something that first satisfies the beholding; it seeks, for instance, the sky-blue of a cornflower, which here or there shines forth out of the golden ground of the swaying ears of grain. Or one transposes oneself into the mood when, from who knows where, a robin joins us in intimate nearness during the garden work. And so it is with all that accompanies us in an essential way throughout the course of the year. Looked upon with interest, moods arise that awaken the sense of beauty. The more this sense grows, the less it will let the human being rest until he has also let it come alive in all work, in social life together, in every celebration.