More from Rainer Maria Rilke

  1. Make your ego porous. Will is of little importance, complaining is nothing, fame is nothing. Openness, patience, receptivity, solitude is e…
  2. Surely all art is the result of one's having been in danger, of having gone through an experience all the way to the end, where no one can …
  3. Death is the dies of life which is turned away from us.
  4. Ideally a painter (and, generally, an artist) should not become conscious of his insights: without taking the detour through his reflective…
  5. He was a poet and hated the approximate.
  6. Painting is something that takes place among the colors, and ... one has to leave them alone completely, so that they can settle the matter…
  7. The work of the eyes is done. Go now and do the heart-work on the images imprisoned within you.
  8. Just as the creative artist is not allowed to choose, neither is he permitted to turn his back on anything: a single refusal, and he is cas…

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