Go into yourself and test the deeps in which your life takes rise; at its source you will find the answer to the question whether you must create. Accept it, just as it sounds, without inquiring into it. Perhaps it will turn out that you are called to be an artist. Then take that destiny upon yourself and bear it, its burden and its greatness, without ever asking what reward might come from outside
Rainer Maria RilkeWe are unutterably alone essentially, especially in the things most intimate and most important.
Rainer Maria RilkeSurely 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.
Rainer Maria RilkeDraw near to Nature. Then try like some first human being to say what you see and experience and love and lose.
Rainer Maria Rilke