Corita Kent famous quotes

03-28-2025

Nothing is a mistake. Thereâ€™s no win and no fail. Thereâ€™s only make.
-- Corita Kent

#Life #Mistake #Winning
Life is a succession of moments, to live each one is to succeed.
-- Corita Kent

#Life #Motivational #Positive
Love the moment and the energy of that moment will spread beyond all boundaries.
-- Corita Kent

#Love #Inspirational #Life
Flowers grow out of dark moments.
-- Corita Kent

#Flower #Angel #Dark
Don't belittle yourself. Be BIG yourself.
-- Corita Kent

#Self Esteem #Bigs #Belittle
That's why people listen to music or look at paintings. To get in touch with that wholeness.
-- Corita Kent

#People #Looks #Painting
Consider everything an experiment.
-- Corita Kent

#Imagination #Experiments
Find a place you trust and then try trusting it for a while.
-- Corita Kent

#Trying
To be disciplined is to follow in a good way. To be self disciplined is to follow in a better way.
-- Corita Kent

#Self #Way #Productivity
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.
-- Corita Kent

#Love #Life #Happiness
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.
-- Corita Kent

#Pieces #World #Littles
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

#Hope #Flower #Darkness
Women's liberation is the liberation of the feminine in the man and the masculine in the woman.
-- Corita Kent

#Men #Feminism #Feminine
Art does not come from thinking but from responding.
-- Corita Kent

#Art #Thinking #Doe
To understand is to stand under which is to look up to which is a good way to understand.
-- Corita Kent

#Carpe Diem #Looks #Way
Celebration is a kind of food we all need in our lives, and each individual brings a special recipe or offering, so that together we will make a great feast. Celebration is a human need that we must not, and can not, deny. It is richer and fuller when many work and then celebrate together.
-- Corita Kent

#Offering #Special #Together
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.
-- Corita Kent

#Work #People #Working It
Earnestness and sincerity are synonymous.
-- Corita Kent

#Sincerity #Earnestness
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.
-- Corita Kent

#Art #Creativity #Mean
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.
-- Corita Kent

#Carpe Diem #Giants #Would Be
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.
-- Corita Kent

#Past #Names #Identity
Damn everything but the circus
-- Corita Kent

#Circus
Maybe we are less than our dreams, but that less would make us more than some gods would dream of.
-- Corita Kent

#Dream
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.
-- Corita Kent

#Jesus #Important #Steps
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.
-- Corita Kent

#Children #Artist #Creating
To create is to relate. We trust in the artist in everybody to make his own connections, his own juxtapositions.
-- Corita Kent

#Artist #Connections #Juxtaposition
Regard everything as an experiment.
-- Corita Kent

#Experiments

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