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Kahlil Gibran

Twenty Drawings

  • Amirahas quoted4 years ago
    “I know of no one else in whom drawing and poetry are so linked together as to make him a new Blake.”
  • Amirahas quoted4 years ago
    Our souls have sight of that immortal sea from whence we came.”
  • Amirahas quoted4 years ago
    his paintings are so suggestive of the art of the sculptor.
  • Amirahas quoted4 years ago
    thought and representation.
  • Amirahas quoted4 years ago
    Gibran’s studies of movement are akin to those of Michelangelo because he has arrived at a unity of
  • Amirahas quoted4 years ago
    “Venice as the Queen of the Adriatic.”
  • Amirahas quoted4 years ago
    To the East the lotus is a flower, but also a symbol of divinity; to the West it is a flower developing into the acanthus design and completing the circle, it becomes a decoration, and so again only a flower.
  • Amirahas quoted4 years ago
    The pre-Raphaelites
  • Amirahas quoted4 years ago
    is a Classicist and his work owes more to the findings of da Vinci than it does to any of our modern insurgents.
  • Amirahas quoted4 years ago
    As a poet, he is a Romanticist, moving abreast the times and incorporating the keenly analytic spirit of our age into the ancient parable or the simple form of rhythmic prose.
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