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. β¨ Letter to his wife (October 21, 1907). Letters on CeΜzanne. Book by Rainer Maria Rilke, 1952.
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