Nothing touches a work of art so little as words of criticism: they always result in more or less fortunate misunderstandings. — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
A work of art is good if it has arisen out of necessity. That is the only way one can judge it. — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“Works of art are of an infinite solitude, and no means of approach is so useless as criticism.” — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
The artist's task consists of making one thing of many, and a world from the smallest part of a thing. — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
No great art has ever been made without the artist having known danger. — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
The artist's experience lies so unbelievably close to the sexual, to its pain and its pleasure, that the two phenomena are really… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
My art is representational by choice…if the art of painting is to survive, it must describe and express people, their lives and… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
Being an artist means, not reckoning and counting, but ripening like the tree which does not force its sap and stands confidence… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
Works of art are of an infinite solitude, and no means of approach is so useless as criticism. Only love can touch… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
More unsayable than all other things are works of art, those mysterious existences, whose life endures beside our own small, transitory life. — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
Surely all art is the result of one's having been in danger, of having gone through an experience all the way to… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“Works of art are infinitely solitary and nothing is less likely to reach them than criticism. Only love can grasp them and… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
Works of art always spring from those who have faced the danger, gone to the very end of an experience, to the… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“There is here no measuring with time, no year matters, and ten years are nothing. Being an artist means, not reckoning and… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
Art too is just a way of living, and however one lives, one can, without knowing, prepare for it; in everything real… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
Things aren't all so tangible and sayable as people would usually have us believe; most experiences are unsayable, they happen in a… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“Nothing could be less conducive to reaching an art-work than critical remarks:it's always simply a matter of more or less fortunate misunderstandings.… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
Painting is something that takes place among the colors, and one has to leave them alone completely, so that they can settle… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“Ideally a painter (and, generally, an artist) should not become conscious of his insights: without taking the detour through his conscious reflection,… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“Nothing touches a work of art so little as words of criticism: they always result in more or less fortunate misunderstandings. Things… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“To be an artist means: not to calculate and count; to grow and ripen like a tree which does not hurry the… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
In this there is no measuring with time, a year doesn’t matter, and ten years are nothing. Being an artist means: not… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
Ideally a painter (and, generally, an artist) should not become conscious of his insights: without taking the detour through his reflective processes,… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“Works of art are of an infinite solitude, and no means of approach is so useless as criticism. Only love can touch… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“And in fact the artist's experience lies so unbelievably close to the sexual, to its pain and its pleasure, that the two… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“Just as the creative artist is not allowed to choose, neither is he permitted to turn his back on anything: a single… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“Things are not all so comprehensible and utterable as people would mostly have us believe; most events are unutterable, consummating themselves in… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
Everything is gestation and bringing forth. To let each impression and each germ of feeling come to completion wholly in itself, in… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
The artist's experience lies so unbelievably close to the sexual, to its pain and its pleasure, that the two phenomena are really just different… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“Out of infinite longings rise finite deeds like weak fountains, falling back just in time and trembling. And yet, what otherwise remains silent, our… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“I love the dark hours of my being. My mind deepens into them. There I can find, as in old letters, the days of… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“A complete sharing between two people is an impossibility and whenever it seems, nevertheless, to exist, it is a narrowing, a mutual agreement which… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“But this is what ... people are so often and disastrously wrong in doing: they (who by their very nature are impatient) fling themselves… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“If there is nothing you can share with other people, try to be close to Things. Things will not abandon you. The nights are… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“The point of marriage is not to create a quick commonality by tearing down all boundaries; on the contrary, a good marriage is one… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
You life will find its own paths... and that they be good, rich, and wide is what I wish for you, more than I… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
I do not want to be folded for where I am folded, there I am a lie. — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
