Top 25 Corita Kent Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Nothing is a mistake. There’s no win and no fail. There’s only make.”

— Corita Kent

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2. “Consider everything an experiment.”

— Corita Kent

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3. “Don’t belittle yourself. Be BIG yourself.”

— Corita Kent

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

— Corita Kent

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

— Corita Kent

6. “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

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

— Corita Kent

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

— Corita Kent

9. “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

10. “Find a place you trust and then try trusting it for a while.”

— Corita Kent

11. “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

12. “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

13. “It is a huge danger to pretend that awful things do not happen. But you need enough hope to keep going. I am trying to make hope. Flowers grow out of darkness.”

— Corita Kent

14. “A responsible person is one who responds.”

— Corita Kent

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

— Corita Kent

16. “One of the things Jesus did was to step aside from the organized religion of his time because it had become corrupt and bogged down with rules. Rules became more important than feeding the hungry.”

— Corita Kent

17. “Earnestness and sincerity are synonymous.”

— Corita Kent

18. “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

19. “Flowers grow out of dark moments.”

— Corita Kent

20. “Art does not come from thinking but from responding.”

— Corita Kent

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

— Corita Kent

22. “Damn everything but the circus.”

— Corita Kent

23. “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.”

— Corita Kent

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

— Corita Kent

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

— Corita Kent

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

— Corita Kent

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

— Corita Kent

28. “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

29. “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