Inspirational Quotations

Inspirational Quotes by Corita Kent (American Artist)

Corita Kent (1918–86,) aka Sister Mary Corita Kent, was born Frances Elizabeth Kent in Fort Dodge, Iowa. Kent was an artist and an educator who worked in Los Angeles and Boston. She worked almost exclusively with silkscreen and serigraphy, helping to establish it as a fine art medium. Her artwork, with its messages of love and peace, was particularly popular during the social upheavals of the 1960s and 1970s. Kent designed the 1985 United States Postal Service annual “love” stamp.

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Love the moment and the energy of the moment will spread beyond all boundaries.
Corita Kent
Topics: Love, The Present

We must become new people or be satisfied the way we are—either way we risk tragedy but by the first we choose life, by the second we choose death.
Corita Kent

Earnestness and sincereness are synonymous.
Corita Kent
Topics: Enthusiasm

Life is a succession of moments. To live each one is to succeed.
Corita Kent
Topics: The Present, Present, Success, Living

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
Topics: Harmony

Maybe we are less than our dreams, but that less would make us more than some Gods would dream of.
Corita Kent
Topics: Dreams

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.
Corita Kent
Topics: Difficulty, Difficulties, Adversity

Women’s liberation is the liberation of the feminine in the man and the masculine in the woman.
Corita Kent
Topics: Women, Feminism

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