Khalil Gibran Quotes

All art is a kind of exploring. To discover and reveal is the way every artist sets about his business.

Art is an investigation.

The coming of the kids hasn't come out in my art yet.

Fiction, maybe art in general, is a tentative, uncertain enterprise; it's not science, it's an exploration, but you never find much in the way of answers.

Ah, the creative process is the same secret in science as it is in art. They are all the same absolutely.

Art flourishes where there is a sense of adventure.

While drawing, I discover what I really want to say.

That's what art is. You don't make up stories. You live your life.

All the things an artist must be: poet, explorer of nature, philosopher!

To me art is an adventure into an unknown world, which can be explored only by those willing to take the risk.

Art is a game. Too bad for him who makes a duty of it.

Art is science made flesh.

Creativity gives new forms, new patterns, new ideas, new art forms. And we don't know where creativity comes from. Is it inspired from above? Welling up from below? Picked up from the air? What? Creativity is a mystery wherever you encounter it.

Art is a little bit larger than life - it's an exhalation of life and I think you probably need a little touch of madness.

It is the job of artists to open doors and invite in prophesies, the unknown, the unfamiliar; it’s where their work comes from, although its arrival signals the beginning of the long disciplined process of making it their own. Scientists too, as J. Robert Oppenheimer once remarked, ‘live always at the ‘edge of mystery’­—the boundary of the unknown.’ But they transform the unknown into the known, haul it in like fishermen; artists get you out into that dark sea.

The discoveries of science, the works of art are explorations - more, are explosions, of a hidden likeness. The discoverer or artist presents in them two aspects of nature and fuses them into one. This is the act of creation, in which an original thought is born, and it is the same act in original science and original art.

At the center of everything we call 'the arts,' and children call 'play,' is something which seems somehow alive.

The roots of art and play lie very close together.

An artist is an explorer.

Writing is really wonderful art. A lot of this is discovery. A lot of things are lying around waiting to be discovered and that's our job as writers is to just notice them and bring them to life.

I've done an incredible amount of painters. It's an area, for me, where there's more mystery left. I've photographed so many musicians, I've been in studios so often, I know the whole process. The mystery's gone from it. I think it's important to keep mystery into our lives. There's a longing connected with it.

Art is like turning corners, one never knows what is around the corner until one has made the turn.

Most writers are drawn to what is unknown, rather than what is clear in any tale.

The creative act amazes me. Whether it's poetry, whether it's music, it's an amazing process, and it has something to do with bringing forth the old out into the world to create and to bring forth that which will rejuvenate.

The artist's world is limitless. It can be found anywhere, far from where he lives or a few feet away. It is always on his doorstep.