Khalil Gibran Quotes About Art
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My God, my aim and my fulfillment; I am thy yesterday and thou are my tomorrow. I am they root in the earth and thou art my flower in the sky, and together we grow before the face of the sun.
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Art arises when the secret vision of the artist and the manifestation of nature agree to find new shapes.
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Pity the nation whose statesman is a fox, whose philosopher is a juggler, and whose art is the art of patching and mimicking. Pity the nation that welcomes its new ruler with trumpetings, and farewells him with hootings, only to welcome another ruler with trumpetings again. Pity the nation whose sages are dumb with years and whose strong men are yet in the cradle. Pity the nation divided into fragments, each fragment deeming itself a nation.
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Our God, who art our winged self, it is thy will in us that willeth. It is thy desire in us that desireth. It is thy urge in us that would turn our nights, which are thine, into days which are thine also. We cannot ask thee for aught, for thou knowest our needs before they are born in us: Thou art our need; and in giving us more of thyself thou givest us all.
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Art is a step from what is obvious and well-known toward what is arcane and concealed.
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I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art.
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Art is a step in the known toward the unknown
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He who defines his conduct by ethics imprisons his song-bird in a cage.
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