Corita Kent Quotes

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

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  Life, Mistake, Winning

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• 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.

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  Art, Creativity, Mean

  Corita Kent, Jan Steward (2008). “Learning by Heart: Teachings to Free the Creative Spirit”, p.28, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• Art does not come from thinking but from responding.

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  Art, Thinking, Doe

  Corita Kent, Jan Steward (2008). “Learning by Heart: Teachings to Free the Creative Spirit”, p.45, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• 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.

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  Children, Artist, Creating

  Corita Kent, Jan Steward (2008). “Learning by Heart: Teachings to Free the Creative Spirit”, p.28, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• 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.

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  Love, Life, Happiness

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• Consider everything an experiment.

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  Imagination, Experiments, Productivity

  Corita Kent, Corita (1992). “Learning by Heart”, Bantam

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• 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.

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  Hope, Flower, Darkness

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• 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.

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  Jesus, Women, Religion

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• 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.

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  Offering, Special, Together

  Corita Kent, Jan Steward (2008). “Learning by Heart: Teachings to Free the Creative Spirit”, p.326, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• Creative ability is often mistakenly attributed to inborn talent. It is about all the ability to connect one thing with another.

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  Creative, Talent, Ability

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• Don't belittle yourself. Be BIG yourself.

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  Confidence, Self Esteem, Love Yourself

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

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  Life, Motivational, Positive

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• When you are not separate from the creative process, time ceases to exist. You might start to feel tired and suddenly realize that much time has passed. It isn't necessarily a happy time - and may be very difficult to start if it is a job or an obligation. But if' you start with all the concrete needs and proceed in a thorough way - the creative process will take over and you will forget whether it is work or play. Working in the here and now is one of the most uncontaminated ways to work.

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  Jobs, Tired, Happy Times

  Corita Kent, Corita (1992). “Learning by Heart”, Bantam

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

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  Men, Masculine And Feminine, Feminism

  1974 In the Los Angeles Times, 11 Jul.

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• 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.

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  Carpe Diem, Giants, Would Be

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• Love the moment and the energy of that moment will spread beyond all boundaries.

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  Love, Inspirational, Life

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• 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.

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  Littles, Taste, Pieces

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• To understand is to stand under which is to look up to which is a good way to understand.

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  Carpe Diem, Looks, Way

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• 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.

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  Past, Names, Identity

  Corita Kent, Jan Steward (2008). “Learning by Heart: Teachings to Free the Creative Spirit”, p.49, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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

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  Trying

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• A responsible person is one who responds.

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  Responsible, Responsible Person, Persons

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• To create is to relate. We trust in the artist in everybody to make his own connections, his own juxtapositions.

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  Artist, Connections, Juxtaposition

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• Flowers grow out of dark moments.

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  Women, Flower, Angel

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• 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.

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  Work, People, Working It

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• Regard everything as an experiment.

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  Experiments, Regard

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