Corita Kent Quotes

Don’t belittle yourself. Be BIG yourself.

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.

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

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

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.

A responsible person is one who responds.

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.

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.

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.

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

Flowers grow out of dark moments.

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