Rainer Maria Rilke Quotes About Criticism

Quotes about: Criticism

• And your doubt can become a good quality if you train it. It must become knowing, it must become criticism. Ask it, whenever it wants to spoil something for you, why something is ugly, demand proofs from it, test it, and you will find it perhaps bewildered and embarrassed, perhaps also protesting. But don't give in, insist on arguments, and act in this way, attentive and persistent, every single time, and the day will come when, instead of being a destroyer, it will become one of your best workers-perhaps the most intelligent of all the ones that are building your life.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Life, Time, Giving Up

• Read as little as possible of literary criticism - such things are either partisan opinions, which have become petrified and meaningless, hardened and empty of life, or else they are just clever word-games, in which one view wins today, and tomorrow the opposite view. Works of art are of an infinite solitude, and no means of approach is so useless as criticism.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Art, Clever, Mean

  "Letters to a Young Poet". Book by Rainer Maria Rilke. Letter Three (April 23, 1903), 1929.

• Works of art are of an infinite solitude, and no means of approach is so useless as criticism. Only love can touch and hold them and be fair to them.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Art, Mean, Solitude

  Rainer Maria Rilke (2001). “Letters to a Young Poet”

• Works of art are of an infinite loneliness and with nothing so little to be reached as with criticism.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Art, Loneliness, Criticism

• I never read anything concerning my work. I feel that criticism is a letter to the public which the author, since it is not directed to him, does not have to open and read.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Criticism, Doe, Letters

  Rainer Maria Rilke (1969). “Letters of Rainer Maria Rilke, 1892-1910”, p.293, W. W. Norton & Company

• Your doubt can become a good quality if you train it. It must become knowing, it must become criticism.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Knowing, Doubt, Criticism

  Rainer Maria Rilke (2012). “Letters to a Young Poet”, p.42, Courier Corporation

• Art too is just a way of living, and however one lives, one can, without knowing, prepare for it; in everything real one is closer to it, more its neighbor, than in the unreal half-artistic professions, which, while they pretend to be close to art, in practice deny and attack the existence of all art - as, for example, all of journalism does and almost all criticism and three quarters of what is called (and wants to be called) literature.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Art, Real, Practice

  Rainer Maria Rilke (2001). “Letters to a Young Poet”

• Nothing touches a work of art so little as criticism.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Art, Criticism, Littles

  Rainer Maria Rilke (2001). “Letters to a Young Poet”

• Nothing touches a work of art so little as words of criticism: they always result in more or less fortunate misunderstandings.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Art, Criticism, Littles

  "Letters to a Young Poet". Book by Rainer Maria Rilke. Letter One (February 17, 1903), 1929.

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