Art Quote by Thomas Merton Download Open image ““Art enables us to find ourselves and loose ourselves at the same time.”” — Thomas Merton ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.6 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Art Art-quotes Finding Life quotes Loosing Time
Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time. — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
“For me, art is the desire to preserve the intangible feeling of such a moment, hidden in all the littlest details, and then to… — Rachel Hartman Copy Share Image
“Art is lunging forward without certainty about where you are going or how to get there, being open to and dependent on what luck,… — Mark Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“Art is magic, and art is powerful. Art saves lives- I really believe that. It gives us courage and compassion we might not have… — Sarah Cross Copy Share Image
“Art is anything you can get lost in. It's a place to escape and a place to find yourself.” — Heloise Clough Copy Share Image
“Art should be something that liberates your soul, provokes the imagination and encourages people to go further.” — Keith Haring Copy Share Image
“Art is not merely a decorative enhancement of our lives, but a sign of our desire to live in the world fully and honestly.” — Jan Zwicky Copy Share Image
“We place too much of ourselves inside art - so we become part of it and never feel quiet again for the people, we… — Laura Chouette Copy Share Image
“Art can certainly be an important pathway to discovery. It encourages us to be spontaneous, playful, and curious and to see what lies beneath… — Robi Ludwig Copy Share Image
“In art as in experience, everyday life may be with us at the start but remains fugitive to the very end.” — Joseph Leo Koerner Copy Share Image
“In other words, art is a realm entirely separated from the interests of real life-a refuge for detached and gifted souls from sordid political… — DeWitt Henry Parker Copy Share Image
“Let no one hope to find in contemplation an escape from conflict, from anguish or from doubt. On the contrary, the deep, inexpressible certitude… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
If nothing that can be seen can either be God or represent Him to us as He is, then to find God we must… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
It is almost impossible to overestimate the value of true humility and its power in the spiritual life. For the beginning of humility is… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
We are not perfectly free until we live in pure hope. For when our hope is pure, it no longer trusts exclusively in human… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
The desire to kill is like the desire to attack another with an ingot of red -hot iron: I have to pick up the… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
To enter into the realm of contemplation one must in a certain sense die: but this death is in fact the entrance to a… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
The mission of Christian humility in social life is not merely to edify, but to keep minds open to many alternatives. The rigidity of… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
Peace cannot be built on exclusivism, absolutism, and intolerance. But neither can it be built on vague liberal slogans and pious programs gestated in… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
Things that are good are good, and if one is responding to that goodness one is in contact with a truth from which one… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
The logic of worldly success rests on a fallacy: the strange error that our perfection depends on the thoughts and opinions and applause of… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
“The wisdom of the flesh is a judgement that the ordinary ends of our natural appetites are the goods to which the whole of… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
True works of art contain their own theory and give us the measurement according to which we should judge them. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Before Noah, men having only water to drink, could not find the truth. Accordingly...they became abominably wicked, and they were justly exterminated by the… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
“Hear the sum of the whole matter in the compass of one brief word — every art possessed by man comes from Prometheus.” — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
I think most artists feel like they're outside society - no matter how many accolades they receive, or how much money is in your… — Aaron Rose Copy Share Image
The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science. — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
That's the great secret of creativity. You treat ideas like cats: you make them follow you. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“So, really," continued Jacob as if this were perfectly normal to expound on art in these circumstances, "when you think about it, the artists… — Justina Chen Headley Copy Share Image
“There are two options in art; either to adopt philosophical life by dissecting art, or to write your own philosophical life and claim it… — Taf Teh Copy Share Image
The house has to serve comfort. The work of art is revolutionary; the house is conservative. — Adolf Loos Copy Share Image
During human progress, every science is evolved out of its corresponding art. — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
In literature and art memory is a synonym for invention. It is the life-blood of imagination, which faints and dies when the veins are… — Robert Aris Willmott Copy Share Image
I think a business guy is different from an artist. They walk different paths. Artists create the best outputs when they're having fun. And… — G-Dragon Copy Share Image
