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Corita Kent (November 20, 1918 – September 18, 1986), born Frances Elizabeth Kent and also known as Sister Mary Corita Kent, was an American Roman Catholic religious sister, artist, and educator. She was born in Fort Dodge, Iowa, and later lived and worked in Los Angeles and Boston.

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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.

Artist, Child, Children, Creating, Make, Painters

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.

Carpe Diem, Facts, Giants, Live, World

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.

Eventually, People, Things, Work, Working It

Maybe we are less than our dreams, but that less would make us more than some gods would dream of.

Dream, Gods, Kent, Maybe, Our Dreams

Flowers grow out of dark moments.

Angel, Dark, Flower, Flowers, Moments, Women

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

Life, Live, Moments, Motivational, Positive, Succession

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.

Happiness, Life, Love, Succession, Vital

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.

Dissolved, Identity, Names, Past, Transform

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

Ability, Connect, Creative, Talent, Thing

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

Feminine, Feminism, Man, Masculine, Masculine And Feminine, Men

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

Boundaries, Inspirational, Life, Love, Moment, Spread

Consider everything an experiment.

Everything, Experiment, Experiments, Imagination, Productivity

Earnestness and sincerity are synonymous.

Earnestness, Inspirational, Sincerity, Synonymous

Art does not come from thinking but from responding.

Art, Come, Doe, Responding, Thinking

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.

Art, Creativity, Mean, Relate, Root, Together

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

Listen, Looks, Painting, Paintings, People

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.

Littles, Pieces, Probably, Rest, Tastes, World

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.

Food, Offering, Richer, Special, Together, Work

Life stands still when mankind is afraid to take a chance.

Afraid, Chance, Mankind, Stands, Take A Chance

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.

Happy Times, Jobs, Separate, Take, Tired, Uncontaminated

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