Letters to a Young Painter

“They feel really warm and compassionate, and not performative at all. There’s this great sympathy, compassion, love, and support for this child that on some level he need not have any concrete connection to. Rilke died soon after writing the last of those letters. He was moved to make this connection by a young person in his life who was not his own child but someone else’s, his protégé, and someone he wanted to inspire with his words.” Read more...

The Best Literary Letter Collections

Lucas Zwirner, Artists & Art Critic