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
circus dark-moments damn
Damn everything but the circus
flower angel dark
Flowers grow out of dark moments.
hope flower darkness
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.
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.
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.
people looks painting
That's why people listen to music or look at paintings. To get in touch with that wholeness.
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.