Rainer Maria Rilke Quote

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.


Letter to his wife, reprinted in Rilke's Letters on Cézanne (1952, trans. 1985). (June 24, 1907)


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...

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...

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...

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...