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Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.

Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.
– Thomas Merton

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  1. Art enables us to find ourselves and loose ourselves at the same time. – Thomas Merton
  2. Jesus lived and died in vain if He did not teach us to regulate the whole of life by the eternal law of love. Gandhi, quoted in Merton, p. 38 – Thomas Merton
  3. Knowing the enemy enables you to take the offensive, knowing yourself enables you to stand on the defensive. – Sun Tzu
  4. It is better to lose friends than to lose your reputation, and better to lose riches than to lose your integrity. – Matshona Dhliwayo
  5. When you expect the world to end at any moment, you know there is no need to hurry. You take your time, you do your work well. – Thomas Merton
  6. For each one of us, there is only one thing necessary: to fulfill our own destiny, according to God’s will, to be what God wants us to be. – Thomas Merton
  7. We do not want to be beginners [at prayer]. but let us be convinced of the fact that we will never be anything but beginners, all our life! – Thomas Merton
  8. The biggest human temptation is to settle for too little. – Thomas Merton
  9. The deepest need of our darkness is to comprehend the light which shines in the midst of it. – Thomas Merton
  10. I will no longer wound myself with the thoughts and questions that have surrounded me like thorns: that is a penance You do not ask of me. – Thomas Merton
  11. But there is greater comfort in the substance of silence than in the answer to a question. – Thomas Merton
  12. The real reason why so few men believe in God is that they have ceased to believe that even a God can love them. – Thomas Merton
  13. The greatest temptations are not those that solicit our consent to obvious sin, but those that offer us great evils masking as the greatest goods. – Thomas Merton
  14. In the end, no one can seek God unless he has already begun to find him. – Thomas Merton
  15. All theology is a kind of birthdayEach one who is born Comes into the world as a questionFor which old answersAre not sufficient-¦ – Thomas Merton
  16. Today the artist has inherited the combined functions of hermit, pilgrim, prophet, priest, shaman, sorcerer, soothsayer, alchemist. – Thomas Merton
  17. Into this world, this demented innin which there is absolutely no room for him at all,Christ comes uninvited. – Thomas Merton
  18. Be still:There is no longer any need of comment.It was a lucky windThat blew away his halo with his cares,A lucky sea that drowned his reputation. – Thomas Merton
  19. My mother was informing me, by mail, that she was about to die, and would never see me again. – Thomas Merton
  20. The deepest of level of communication is not communication, but communion. It is wordless … beyond speech … beyond concept. – Thomas Merton
  21. Art for art’s sake, with no purpose, for any purpose perverts art. But art achieves a purpose which is not its own. (1804) – Benjamin Constant
  22. I’m an artist. I’m an artist and I’m going to make art! Art arty art art. – Andy Beirsack
  23. The perceiving our own weaknesses enables us to give others excellent advice, but it does not teach us to to reform ourselves. – William Hazlitt
  24. The law enables us to see ourselves as morally dirty and in need of cleansing. But it also points us to the place of cleansing: the cross of Christ. – Billy Graham
  25. Whatever enables us to go to war, secures our peace – Thomas Jefferson
  26. We lose ourselves in things we love. We find ourselves there, too. – Kristin Martz
  27. Every yesterday we lose ourselves so that we can find ourselves in tomorrow. – Raneem Kayyali
  28. The primary benefit of practicing any art, whether well or badly, is that it enables one’s soul to grow. – Kurt Vonnegut Jr
  29. All art is an expression and extension of ourselves.. Art finds its deepest value when it is the authentic expression of a deep human experience. – Erwin Raphael McManus
  30. Art is the process of relationship. Through art we create and share ourselves. – Destiny Allison
  31. The whole art of government consists in the art of being honest. – Thomas Jefferson
  32. Old art offers just as good a criticism of new art as new art offers of old. – Jasper Johns
  33. Minority art, vernacular art, is marginal art. Only on the margins does growth occur. – Joanna Russ
  34. You cannot create a piece of art merely for money. Doing it as part of commerce so denudes art of wonder that it ceases to be art. – Seth Godin
  35. Works of art imitate and provoke other works of art, the process is the source of art itself. – Edward Hirsch
  36. I see art in everything. Your shoes. That car. This coffee cup. It’s art if you see it as art. – Andy Warhol
  37. You know what? I’m an artist. I’m an artist and I’m gonna make art, arty art art! – Andy Biersack
  38. Art is the whisper of history, heard above the noise of time. Art does not exist for art’s sake: it exists for people’s sake. – Julian Barnes
  39. Don’t just create art to make money. Make money so you can create more art. (Exchange any words you want for ‘create art’ and see if it fits). – Richie Norton
  40. Art was art, humans were humans, but art was best when it was human. – Jonathan Smith

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