Rainer Maria Rilke Quotes About Painting

Quotes about: Painting

• 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.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Pain, Color, Intellectual

  Letter to his wife (October 21, 1907). "Letters on Cézanne". Book by Rainer Maria Rilke, 1952.

• I want to unfold. I don't want to stay folded anywhere, because where I am folded, there I am a lie, and I want my grasp of things to be true. I want to describe myself like a painting that I looked at closely for a long time,
  like a saying that I finally understood, like the pitcher I use every day,
  like the face of my mother, like a ship that carried me through the wildest storm of all.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Mother, Lying, Long

  Rainer Maria Rilke (1981). “Selected Poems”

• Painting is something that takes place among the colors.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Color, Agility, Painting

  Rainer Maria Rilke (2002). “Letters on Cézanne”, p.66, Macmillan

• My art is representational by choice....if the art of painting is to survive, it must describe and express people, their lives and times. It must communicate.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Art, People, Choices

• Music: breathing of statues. Perhaps: silence of paintings. You language where all language ends. You time standing vertically on the motion of mortal hearts.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Heart, Breathing, Silence

  Rainer Maria Rilke, “To Music”

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