Art Quote by Rainer Maria Rilke

“Nothing touches a work of art so little as words of criticism: they always result in more or less fortunate misunderstandings. Things aren't all…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

“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. Everything cannot…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

Nothing touches a work of art so little as criticism.

— Rainer Maria Rilke

Read as little as possible of literary criticism - such things are either partisan opinions, which have become petrified and meaningless, hardened and empty…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

Art cannot be criticized because every mistake is a new creation

— Mr. Brainwash

“Works of art are of an infinite solitude, and no means of approach is so useless as criticism. Only love can touch and hold…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

I find relatively little relationship between the work of art and the immediate critical response it gets.

— Edward Albee

To contradict, even in little matters, is the supreme necessity of art today.

— Witold Gombrowicz

The first, that their pretensions to this possession of an art properly so called in their art of speaking are entirely unfounded; and the…

— Friedrich Schleiermacher

Failures in art usually lead to something else interesting.

— Will Cotton

The general misunderstanding of a work of art is often due to the fact that the key to its spiritual content and technical means…

— Hans Hofmann

Sometimes it's better to live through someone's work than the person themselves, and to realise that every human being is flawed, but through art…

— Emily Haines