Khalil Gibran Quotes

There are two types of genius; one which above all begets and wants to beget, and another which prefers being fertilized and giving birth.

When you're an artist, all you're trying to do is self-express.

The thing about creativity is, people are going to laugh at it. Get over it.

An artist should be taking risks. That's the whole idea of being an artist.

When the artist is alive in any person, whatever his kind of work may be, he becomes an inventive, searching, daring, self-expressing creature.

I tell the actors that the biggest gift they can give me is to fail. And that the second gift they can give me is to surprise me.

Talent works, genius creates.

I hope what I do has an art to it, and as an artist you have to try new things and keep yourself entertained.

He lives with his creativity in high gear.

As a director, you try to find what is creative.

The artist must continue to look for a new reference. Every day, every performance, every take.

I want to spend my time between the creation of ideas and the creation of things.

I don't want ever to be guilty of what my critics claim: doing formula without original elements.

Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.

Whenever I felt happy about having discovered something, the first encounter, not only with the public, with other musicians, with specialists, etc, was that they rejected it.

I think the idea of art kills creativity.

As a creative person, you want to start with a blank canvas.

Conception, my boy, fundamental brain work, is what makes all the difference in art.

I'm interested in creating new work.

I've hardly had an avant-garde career... If you're going to make a film, you have to try to make sure it comes out of a childlike passion, as if you're doing it for the first time.

I always knew that I wanted to be creative, that I wanted to create something.

Somebody informed me recently that the key to every art, from writing to gardening to sculpture, is creativity. I beg to differ.

Creating something is all about problem-solving.

If you're not observing the world around you, in some sense you're not really an artist because then that means you're just replicating other people's stuff, or, I don't even know what you're doing.

If you're always thinking about someone else's work, about the tradition you're working in, how can you possibly make anything good?