You must give birth to your images. They are the future waiting to be born.
Interpretation
This quote emphasizes the importance of expressing and realizing one's creative visions as they hold the potential for future significance.
Rainer Maria Rilke's quote speaks to the act of creation, suggesting that artists and individuals must manifest their inner visions or 'images' into the world. These images represent potential futures that need to be nurtured and brought to life, as they are not just fleeting thoughts but rather important contributions waiting to emerge.
In practice
An artist might use this quote to inspire their audience at an art exhibition.
Spring has again returned. _x000D_ _x000D_ The Earth is like a child that knows many poems._x000D_ _x000D_ Many, O so many. For the hardship_x000D_ _x000D_ of such long learning she receives the prize._x000D_ _x000D_ _x000D_ Strict was her teacher. _x000D_ _x000D_ The white in the old man's beard pleases us._x000D_ _x000D_ Now, what to call green, to call blue,_x000D_ _x000D_ we dare to ask: She knows, She knows!
Verses are not, as people think, feelings (those one has early enough) -- they are experiences. For the sake of a verse one must see many cities, men, and things, one must know the animals feel how birds fly, and know the gesture with which the little flowers open in the morning.
a good marriage is that in which each appoints the other guardian of his solitude
He reproduced himself with so much humble objectivity, with the unquestioning, matter of fact interest of a dog who sees himself in a mirror and thinks: there's another dog.
The only journey is the one within.
And now we welcome the new year, full of things that have never been
A documentary photograph is not a factual photograph.
In the great glasshouses streaming with condensation, the children in mourning-dress beheld marvels.
We don't need a lot of initiatives for women in film; what we need is money.
I enjoy reading about the lives of musicians, and find many similarities in their ideas of preparation and their utter devotion to this great, eternal language: music.
One of the obsessions that the Soviet Union and the Eastern European communist parties had was always controlling the message - all information that everybody gets has to be carefully controlled and monitored. Art was no exception.
Conceptual art became the liberating idea that gave the art of the next 40 years its real impetus.
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