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
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.
beyond boundaries energy love moment spread
Love the moment and the energy of the moment will spread beyond all boundaries
ad ads buy enjoy fun good life ordinary pressure restore taking trying words
You can enjoy the quality of the ad and not let them pressure you to buy what you don't really need. I have had fun taking back superlatives and just ordinary good words and phrases from ads and trying to restore some of their life to them.
car drew john longer meant original picture pope wearing
When someone drew a picture of Pope John wearing an Avis 'We try harder' button, those words no longer meant which car rental to patronize, and yet some of the overtones from its original meaning are there and make a contribution to the new situation.
changed except magazines maybe names newspapers understanding
Someone remarked that the newspapers or the news magazines are the same as the psalms except that the names changed in the stories. Maybe you can't understand the psalms without understanding the newspaper and the other way around.
became coming drudgery food great people shopping
Groceries became a revelation: the people coming out with bundles of food. It's all like a great ceremony, and the whole drudgery of shopping has become my inspiration.
art
When art has changed, it's because the world was changing.
cans eighteenth everyday gentlemen highway ladies soup swings takes tries
In the eighteenth century, it was ladies and gentlemen and swings in a garden; today, it may be Campbell's soup cans or highway signs. There is no real difference. The artist still takes his everyday world and tries to make something out of it.
brought cared careless false life meaning original promotion slang stolen ugly uses work
Words have life and must be cared for. If they are stolen for ugly uses or careless slang or false promotion work, they need to be brought back to their original meaning - back to their roots.
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.
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.
art thinking doe
Art does not come from thinking but from responding.
responsible responsible-person persons
A responsible person is one who responds.