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
andy art coming home pop saw soup tomato warhol
Take an exhibit, in the days when we saw the Pop art - Andy Warhol and all that - tomato soup cans, etc., and coming home, you saw everything like A. Warhol.
art thinking doe
Art does not come from thinking but from responding.
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.
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.
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.
artist juxtaposition connections
To create is to relate. We trust in the artist in everybody to make his own connections, his own juxtapositions.
art
When art has changed, it's because the world was changing.
beyond boundaries energy love moment spread
Love the moment and the energy of the moment will spread beyond all boundaries
past names identity
When you get past making labels for things, it is possible to combine and transform elements into new things. Look at things until their import, identity, name, use, and description have dissolved.
sincerity earnestness
Earnestness and sincerity are synonymous.
dream our-dreams kent
Maybe we are less than our dreams, but that less would make us more than some gods would dream of.
responsible responsible-person persons
A responsible person is one who responds.
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.