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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
Answerable
Each
Get
Harmony
Inside
Kind
Little
Only
Other
Painting
Piece
Relates
Rest
Symbol
Tastes
Total
Universe
World
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Damn everything but the circus.
~ Corita Kent
Circus
Damn
Everything
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Flowers grow out of dark moments.
~ Corita Kent
Dark
Flowers
Grow
Moments
Out
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Life is a succession of moments, to live each one is to succeed.
~ Corita Kent
Each
Each One
Life
Life Is A
Live
Moments
Succeed
Succession
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Love the moment and the energy of that moment will spread beyond all boundaries.
~ Corita Kent
Beyond
Boundaries
Energy
Love
Moment
Spread
Will
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That's why people listen to music or look at paintings. To get in touch with that wholeness.
~ Corita Kent
Get
Listen
Look
Music
Paintings
People
Touch
Wholeness
Why
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Women's liberation is the liberation of the feminine in the man and the masculine in the woman.
~ Corita Kent
Feminine
Liberation
Man
Masculine
Woman
Women
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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
Became
Become
Ceremony
Coming
Drudgery
Food
Great
Groceries
Inspiration
Like
Out
People
Revelation
Shopping
Whole
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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
Am
Art
Brave
Enough
Freely
Going
I Am
I Can
Income
Income Tax
Jail
Pay
Rather
Risk
Say
Tax
Want
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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
Artist
Campbell
Cans
Century
Difference
Eighteenth
Eighteenth Century
Everyday
Garden
Gentlemen
Highway
His
Ladies
Make
May
Out
Real
Real Difference
Signs
Something
Soup
Still
Swings
Takes
Today
Tries
World
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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
Around
Changed
Except
Magazines
Maybe
Names
News
Newspaper
Newspapers
Other
Psalms
Same
Someone
Stories
Understand
Understanding
Way
Without
You
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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
Andy
Andy Warhol
Art
Cans
Coming
Coming Home
Days
Etc
Everything
Exhibit
Home
Like
Pop
Pop Art
Saw
Soup
Take
Tomato
Warhol
You
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When art has changed, it's because the world was changing.
~ Corita Kent
Art
Because
Changed
Changing
World
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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
Button
Car
Contribution
Drew
Harder
John
Longer
Make
Meaning
Meant
New
Original
Picture
Pope
Situation
Some
Someone
Those
Try
Wearing
Which
Words
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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
Back
Brought
Cared
Careless
False
Life
Meaning
Must
Need
Original
Promotion
Roots
Slang
Stolen
Ugly
Uses
Words
Work
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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
Ad
Ads
Back
Buy
Enjoy
Fun
Good
Good Words
Had
Just
Life
Need
Ordinary
Phrases
Pressure
Quality
Really
Restore
Some
Taking
Them
Trying
Words
You
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Corita Kent
Profession
Artist
BirthDate
20 November, 1918
DeathDate
18 September, 1986
Country
United States
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