Note 272 — Chapter VII · MUSIC AND PLASTIC
Charles Francis Atkinson translation
Die bildenden Künste. The expression is a standard one in German, but unfamiliar in English. Ordinarily, however, “die bildenden Künste” (shaping arts, arts of form) are contrasted with “die redenden Künste” (speaking arts)—music, as giving utterance rather than spatial form to things, being counted among the latter.—Tr.