“A work of art is good when it is necessary, when it comes from a need. This is the only way to judge it, by its origins…
Maybe it will turn out our vocation is to be an artist. If that is so, take up that destiny and bear it, its burden, its greatness - without ever asking what reward from the outside it may bring you. For he who creates must be a world unto himself, must find everything inside himself and in the Nature to which he devotes himself.”
Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a young poet, Letter 1, 1903