“Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.”– Thomas Merton Related Quotes “The body is your instrument in dance, but your art is outside that creature, the body.”– Martha Graham “An aphorism ought to be entirely isolated from the surrounding world like a little work of art and complete in itself like a hedgehog.”– Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel “Every production of an artist should be the expression of an adventure of his soul.”– W. Somerset Maugham