“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.”
Book:Letters on Cézanne
Quote by Rainer Maria Rilke
Work
Letters on Cézanne
This book compiles letters that delve into the analysis and appreciation of Paul Cézanne's art, offering insights into the artist's techniques and influences. more
Author
Rainer Maria Rilke
German poet known for his profound poetry and epistolary works. Rainer Maria Rilke's poetry style is unique, often exploring themes such as loneliness, love, and religious faith. more
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“Perhaps everything terrible is in its deepest being something helpless that wants help from us.”
Source: Rilke on Love and Other Difficulties: Translations and Considerations
“The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things.”
“Spring has returned. The Earth is like a child that knows poems.”
“No great art has ever been made without the artist having known danger.”
“The future enters into us, in order to transform itself in us, long before it happens.”
“The deepest experience of the creator is feminine, for it is experience of receiving and bearing.”
Source: Letters of Rainer Maria Rilke, 1892-1910
“There are quantities of human beings, but there are many more faces, for each person has several.”
Source: Prose and poetry
“All the soarings of my mind begin in my blood.”
Source: Letters of Rainer Maria Rilke, 1892-1910