Rainer Maria Rilke Quotes & Quotations

Rainer Maria Rilke Quotes

» Who's not sat tense before his own heart's curtain.

» Painting is something that takes place among the colors, and one has to leave them alone completely, so that they can settle the matter among themselves. Their intercourse: this is the whole of painting. Whoever meddles, arranges, injects his human deliberation, his wit, his advocacy, his intellectual agility in any way, is already disturbing and clouding their activity.

» 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 go any further.

» Just as language has no longer anything in common with the thing it names, so the movements of most of the people who live in cities have lost their connection with the earth; they hang, as it were, in the air, hover in all directions, and find no place where they can settle.

» Do not assume that she who seeks to comfort you now, lives untroubled among the simple and quiet words that sometimes do you good. Her life may also have much sadness and difficulty, that remains far beyond yours. Were it otherwise, she would never have been able to find these words.

» Ideally a painter (and, generally, an artist) should not become conscious of his insights: without taking the detour through his reflective processes, and incomprehensibly to himself, all his progress should enter so swiftly into the work that he is unable to recognize them in the moment of transition. Alas, the artist who waits in ambush there, watching, detaining them, will find them transformed like the beautiful gold in the fairy tale which cannot remain gold because some small detail was not taken care of.

» All emotions are pure which gather you and lift you up; that emotion is impure which seizes only one side of your being and so distorts you.

» Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.

» Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant day into your answers.

» The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things

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