| ' spirit
.....[....L. spiritum, nom. -tus,
from spirare, to breathe ], n. The immaterial
part of man, the soul; this as not connected with a
physical body, a disembodied soul, a ghost; an incorporeal
or supernatural being, a sprite, an elf, a fairy, ........;
a person of great mental or moral force; vigour of mind
or intellect; vivacity, energy, ardour, enthusiasm;..........v.t.
To animate, to inspirit;....the Spirit, the
Holy Spirit: .....'
Hayward and Sparkes. (1982) The Concise English
Dictionary. Omega Books.
' .....true art is an expression
of man's search for a relationship with the spiritual.......
No artist would create in his medium if there were not
alive in him impulses springing from the spiritual world.
It cannot be denied that our materialistically oriented
civilization diverts us, in many ways, from the gravity
of art.'
Rudolph Steiner. (1923) The Arts and Their Mission..
Anthroposophic Press.
' The painter's true reality lies
neither in abstraction nor in realism, but in the reconquest
of his weight as a human being.'
Aniela Jaffe (1978) 'Symbolism in the Visual Arts',
from Man and his Symbols, Ed. C.G.Jung. Picador.
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