Corita Kent Quotes

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

Corita Kent

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

To be disciplined is to follow in a good way. To be self disciplined is to follow in a better way.

Corita Kent

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

There are so many hungry people that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread.

Corita Kent

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

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

Corita Kent

Corita Kent

Born: November 20, 1918

Died: September 18, 1986 (aged 67)

Bio: 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.

Known for:

Learning by Heart
Come alive!
To believe in God (1968)
Prophets - Now (1980)

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