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Corita Kent Quotes
American
-
Artist
November 20, 1918 - September 18, 1986
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.
Corita Kent
Great
People
Food
Shopping
Became
Ceremony
Coming
Drudgery
Groceries
Inspiration
Revelation
Become
Like
Out
Whole
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.
Corita Kent
Life
Work
Words
Ugly
Brought
Cared
Careless
False
Meaning
Original
Promotion
Roots
Slang
Stolen
Uses
Back
Must
Need
Love the moment and the energy of that moment will spread beyond all boundaries.
Corita Kent
Inspirational
Love
Moment
Energy
Beyond
Boundaries
Spread
Will
Flowers grow out of dark moments.
Corita Kent
Flowers
Grow
Sympathy
Dark
Moments
Out
Damn everything but the circus.
Corita Kent
Everything
Damn
Circus
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.
Corita Kent
World
Painting
Universe
Rest
Answerable
Harmony
Inside
Piece
Relates
Symbol
Tastes
Total
Each
Get
Kind
Little
Only
Other
That's why people listen to music or look at paintings. To get in touch with that wholeness.
Corita Kent
Art
Music
People
Look
Touch
Paintings
Wholeness
Get
Listen
Why
Life is a succession of moments, to live each one is to succeed.
Corita Kent
Life
Life Is A
Live
Succeed
Each One
Moments
Succession
Each
Women's liberation is the liberation of the feminine in the man and the masculine in the woman.
Corita Kent
Women
Man
Woman
Liberation
Feminine
Masculine
In the eighteenth century, it was ladies and gentlemen and swings in a garden; today, it may be Campbell's soup cans or highway signs. There is no real difference. The artist still takes his everyday world and tries to make something out of it.
Corita Kent
When someone drew a picture of Pope John wearing an Avis 'We try harder' button, those words no longer meant which car rental to patronize, and yet some of the overtones from its original meaning are there and make a contribution to the new situation.
Corita Kent
Car
Words
Situation
New
Button
Contribution
Drew
Harder
John
Longer
Meaning
Meant
Original
Patronize
Picture
Pope
Wearing
Make
Some
Someone
Those
Try
Which
You can enjoy the quality of the ad and not let them pressure you to buy what you don't really need. I have had fun taking back superlatives and just ordinary good words and phrases from ads and trying to restore some of their life to them.
Corita Kent
Life
Good
You
Words
Ad
Ads
Buy
Good Words
Ordinary
Phrases
Pressure
Quality
Restore
Taking
Back
Enjoy
Fun
Had
Just
Need
Really
Some
Them
Trying
Take an exhibit, in the days when we saw the Pop art - Andy Warhol and all that - tomato soup cans, etc., and coming home, you saw everything like A. Warhol.
Corita Kent
Art
You
Home
Like
Andy
Andy Warhol
Cans
Coming
Coming Home
Etc
Exhibit
Pop
Pop Art
Saw
Soup
Tomato
Warhol
Days
Everything
Take
When art has changed, it's because the world was changing.
Corita Kent
Art
World
Because
Changed
Changing
Someone remarked that the newspapers or the news magazines are the same as the psalms except that the names changed in the stories. Maybe you can't understand the psalms without understanding the newspaper and the other way around.
Corita Kent
You
Way
Understanding
Understand
Changed
Except
Magazines
Names
News
Newspaper
Newspapers
Psalms
Stories
Around
Maybe
Other
Same
Someone
Without
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.
Corita Kent
Art
I Am
Brave
Enough
Freely
Income
Income Tax
Jail
Risk
Tax
Am
Going
I Can
Pay
Rather
Say
Want
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