Corita Art Quotes & Sayings

And now that Wells had heard him laugh, he wondered whether the so-called Elephant Man had not in fact been smiling at him from the moment he stepped into the room, a warm, friendly smile intended to sooth the discomfort his appearance produced in his guests, a smile no one would ever see.
As he left the room, he felt a tear roll down his cheek. — Felix J. Palma

Some nights I would drive up Route 29 to the all-night Wal-Mart. I'd push a cart around with some paper towels inside to look like a real shopper, just to spy on married people. I just wanted to be near them, to listen to them argue ... Married people fight over some dumb shit when they think there aren't any widowers eavesdropping. And they never think there are widowers eavesdropping.
Rob Sheffield (Love is a Mix Tape) — Rob Sheffield

The habit of learning to appreciate to the utmost every situation in life adds wonderfully to the sum total of one's happiness. But many people are incapable of real happiness because they never learn to appreciate anything except that which appeals to their own comfort, pleasure, or appetite. — Orison Swett Marden

To be disciplined is to follow in a good way. To be self disciplined is to follow in a better way. — Corita Kent

Sometimes that's a year, sometimes it's 18 months, where all I'm doing is taking notes. I'm reconstructing the story from the back to the front so that I know where the front is. — John Irving

Nothing is a mistake. There's no win and no fail. There's only make. — Corita Kent

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

The grotesque in my poems is the motion I use to put myself and the grotesque world together. So the miserable images I use in my poems are the same as the letters I send into the miserable world. — Kim Hyesoon

Chances are where you find them — Terry Pratchett

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 does not come from thinking but from responding. — Corita Kent

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

When art has changed, it's because the world was changing. — Corita Kent

Life is too short not to be who you are — Libba Bray

Consider everything an experiment. — Corita Kent

Today - be the white clouds full of dreams and hopes in someone's sky. — Debasish Mridha

Find a place you trust and then try trusting it for a while. — Corita Kent