Quotes by Corita Kent

About Corita Kent:

Corita Kent was born Frances Elizabeth Kent in Fort Dodge, Iowa. Kent was an American Catholic nun, an artist, and an educator who worked in Los Angeles and Boston.
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Love the moment and the energy of that moment will spread beyond all boundaries.

Corita Kent

Life is a succession of moments, to live each one is to succeed.

Corita Kent

Damn everything but the circus.

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 total universe, there is that kind of total harmony, but we get only little taste...

Corita Kent

Nothing is a mistake. There’s no win and no fail. There’s only make.

Corita Kent

Find a place you trust and then try trusting it for a while.

Corita Kent

To be disciplined is to follow in a good way. To be self disciplined is to follow in a better way.

Corita Kent

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

Corita Kent

Don't belittle yourself. Be BIG yourself.

Corita Kent

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.

Corita Kent

Flowers grow out of dark moments.

Corita Kent

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

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Women's liberation is the liberation of the feminine in the man and the masculine in the woman.

Corita Kent

Author Bio

  • NameCorita Kent
  • DescriptionPop artist
  • BornNovember 20, 1918
  • DiedSeptember 18, 1986
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionGraphic Designer; Printmaker