Corita Kent Quotes
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.
Women's liberation is the liberation of the feminine in the man and the masculine in the woman.
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.
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.
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.
Creative ability is often mistakenly attributed to inborn talent. It is about all the ability to connect one thing with another.
That's why people listen to music or look at paintings. To get in touch with that wholeness.
To understand is to stand under which is to look up to which is a good way to understand.
To create is to relate. We trust in the artist in everybody to make his own connections, his own juxtapositions.
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.
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.
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.
To be disciplined is to follow in a good way. To be self disciplined is to follow in a better way.
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.
Maybe we are less than our dreams, but that less would make us more than some gods would dream of.
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.
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.
