"If you sing of beauty though alone..." - Quote by Khalil Gibran

“In the mouth of Society are many diseased teeth, decayed to the bones of the jaws. But Society makes no effort to have them extracted and be rid of the affliction. It contents itself with gold fillings.”

“Some think I wink at them when I shut my eyes to avoid their sight.”

“And all knowledge is vain save when there is work, and all work is empty save when there is love; and when you work with love you bind yourself to yourself, and to one another, and to God.”

“The artist is the creator of beautiful things. To reveal art and conceal the artist is art's aim. The critic is he who can translate into another manner or a new material his impression of beautiful things.”

“The object of art like every other product creates a public which is sensitive to art and enjoys beauty.”

“Tell them dear, that if eyes were made for seeing,Then beauty is its own excuse for being:Why thou wert there, O rival of the rose!I never sought to ask, I never knew:But, in my simple ignorance supposeThe selfsame power that brought me there brought you.”

“Art needs no spur beyond itself.”

“As an artist one has no home in Europe except in Paris.”

“A painter should begin every canvas with a wash of black, because all things in nature are dark except where exposed by the light.”