Quotes by Corita Kent

Quotes by Corita Kent

Not all of us are painters but we are all artists. 
Each time we fit things together we are creating - 
whether it is to make a loaf of bread, a child, a day. (Corita Kent)

Creativity belongs to the artist in each of us. 
To create means to relate. 
The root meaning of the word art is 'to fit together' and we all do this every day. (Corita Kent)

Maybe we are less than our dreams, but that less would make us more than some gods would dream of. (Corita Kent)

Regard everything as an experiment. (Corita Kent)

Women's liberation is the liberation of the feminine in the man and the masculine in the woman. (Corita Kent)

Love the moment, and the energy of that moment will spread beyond all boundaries. (Corita Kent)

That's why people listen to music or look at paintings. To get in touch with that wholeness. (Corita Kent)

Flowers grow out of dark moments. (Corita Kent)

Earnestness and sincereness are synonymous. (Corita Kent)

Life is a succession of moments. To live each one is to succeed. (Corita Kent)

Find a place you trust and then try trusting it for a while. (Corita Kent)

A painting is a symbol for the universe. Inside it, each piece relates to the other. Each piece is only answerable to the rest of that little world. So, probably in the whole universe, there is that kind of total harmony, but we get only little tastes of it. (Corita Kent)

If you work it will lead to something. It's the people who do all of the work all the time who eventually catch on to things. (Corita Kent)