How would you explain Goethe’s remark in connection with Gothic architecture?

In Goethe’s essay “On German Architecture” (1772), he writes that “the only true art” must “spring from a sincere, unified, original, autonomous feeling, unconcerned, indeed unaware of anything extraneous.” Only “then will it be a living whole, whether born of coarse savagery or cultured sensibility” (“On German Architecture,” 8). How would you explain Goethe’s remark in connection with Gothic architecture? What was it about Gothic architecture that made him want to describe things this way? Going back to some of the overall questions and issues raised in the introductory lesson of this course, why, do you think, is the issue of “wholeness” and “originality” so crucial in this context? and other 5 essays