Quote by Thomas Merton
Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same ti

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

Other quotes by Thomas Merton

By reading the scriptures I am so renewed that all nature seems renewed around me and with me. The sky seems to be a pure, a cooler blue, the trees a deeper green. The whole world is charged with the glory of God and I feel fire and music under my feet. – Thomas Merton

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Religion
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We have what we seek, it is there all the time, and if we give it time, it will make itself known to us. – Thomas Merton

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Time
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Other Quotes from
Art
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What can be more foolish than to think that all this rare fabric of heaven and earth could come by chance, when all the skill of art is not able to make an oyster! – Anatole France

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Art

It ought to be illegal for an artist to marry. If the artist must marry let him find someone more interested in art, or his art, or the artist part of him, than in him. After which let them take tea together three times a week. – Ezra Pound

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Art

Life imitates art far more than art imitates Life. – Oscar Wilde

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Art

Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers. – Nathaniel Hawthorne

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Art

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A conception not reducible to the small change of daily experience is like a currency not exchangeable for articles of consumption it is not a symbol, but a fraud. – George Santayana

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Be as a tower firmly set Shakes not its top for any blast that blows. – Dante Alighieri

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