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
carpe-diem giants would-be
In this speedy world of ours when facts are multiplying rapidly and giant rearrangements are happening all around us, it seems dangerous to be made nervous by the new - to want what we can never have, to want things not to be rearranged. It would be better to be able to take the leap, which is to be able not only to live with change and newness, but even to help make it.
self way productivity
To be disciplined is to follow in a good way. To be self disciplined is to follow in a better way.
trying
Find a place you trust and then try trusting it for a while.
work people working-it
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.
chance take-a-chance mankind
Life stands still when mankind is afraid to take a chance.
circus dark-moments damn
Damn everything but the circus
art creativity mean
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.
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.