Artwork by Khalil Gibran (Photo: Emily O'Dell)
As for your statement, “How happy are you, you who find happiness in your art” – this made me ponder for a long time. No, May, I am neither happy nor content. In me, there is something that can never be content, but does not resemble covetousness; something that can never know happiness but does not resemble misery. In my depths there is a continual throb and an incessant pain, and I desire to change neither – a man in such a plight cannot know happiness or recognise contentment, but he does not complain because in complaining is a certain comfort and transcendence…
— Khalil Gibran
