Corita Kent
Corita Kent
Corita Kent, aka Sister Mary Corita Kent, was born Frances Elizabeth Kent in Fort Dodge, Iowa. Kent was an American Catholic nun, artist, and educator who lived and worked in Los Angeles and Boston...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionArtist
Date of Birth20 November 1918
CountryUnited States of America
Corita Kent quotes about
people looks painting
That's why people listen to music or look at paintings. To get in touch with that wholeness.
flower angel dark
Flowers grow out of dark moments.
art jail brave
I am not brave enough to not pay my income tax and risk going to jail. But I can say rather freely what I want to say with my art.
men masculine-and-feminine feminism
Women's liberation is the liberation of the feminine in the man and the masculine in the woman.
experiments regard
Regard everything as an experiment.
self-esteem bigs belittle
Don't belittle yourself. Be BIG yourself.
pieces world littles
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 total universe, there is that kind of total harmony, but we get only little tastes of it.
children artist creating
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.
carpe-diem way looks
To understand is to stand under which is to look up to which is a good way to understand.
creative talent ability
Creative ability is often mistakenly attributed to inborn talent. It is about all the ability to connect one thing with another.
love life happiness
Love the moment. Flowers grow out of dark moments. Therefore, each moment is vital. It affects the whole. Life is a succession of such moments and to live each, is to succeed.
jesus important steps
One of the things Jesus did was to step aside from the organized religion of his time because it had become corrupt and bogged down with rules. Rules became more important than feeding the hungry.
artist juxtaposition connections
To create is to relate. We trust in the artist in everybody to make his own connections, his own juxtapositions.
hope flower darkness
It is a huge danger to pretend that awful things do not happen. But you need enough hope to keep going. I am trying to make hope. Flowers grow out of darkness.