Corita Kent Quotes

I think the philosophy will continue to be what it always was; which was, let's keep throwing a bunch of things at the wall, and see what sticks.

The biggest threat to a better life is the desire to keep the future under control - to make the world predictable by reining in creativity and enterprise. Progress as a neat blueprint, with no deviations and no surprise, may work in children's cartoons or utopian novels. But it's just a fantasy.

The important thing to remember, if you are trying something that is an innovation, is not to think too much about it. Because if you take too long, by the time you get there, the world will have changed. You take a risk, and if it doesn't work, you make a change. We are not betting our lives on it.

We have the script, we have the actors, and we're trying to figure out what this is, and you don't know what it is. You have to be open to what it's going to become rather than have this thing that you're trying to get to, which is boring.

My methodology is not knowing what I'm doing and making that work for me.

In order to be creative you have to be allowed to fail.

You've got to experiment to figure out what works.

What I learned with tech companies is I gotta give people room to experiment, and also what might later on be a mistake.

Everything is an experiment.

You need to be experimental. You try things, and it is OK if they don't always work necessarily.

Life is about trying things to see if they work.

If a totally new image is to come into being however, there must be sensitivity to internal messages, the image itself must be sensitive to change, must be unstable, and it must include a value image which places high value on trials, experiments, and the trying of new things.

Get it down. Take chances. It may be bad, but that's the only way you can do anything really good.

Really interesting things come because you don't know what the rules are, what you can and can't do.

You can drastically increase your chances for success if you try lots of things and bring the best forward.

Try any goddam thing you like, no matter how boringly normal or outrageous. If it works, fine. If it doesn't, toss it. Toss it even if you love it.

If I do enough different things in enough different ways, I may, eventually, do something right.

There is no single way to train, or do anything well. You have to keep thinking, keep doing things.

I've always been somebody who, when I started a picture, never knew what the next picture would be.

I think there are actors who are like, 'Okay, what am I doing, how am I doing it, what's the appeal? Tell me what to do, what are the exact lines from the script? Okay, I got it.' I am not that way. I would be a terrible bus driver. I'd want to be like, 'Oh, let's take this side road! Let's see what happens when we go down this back alley.'

Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties.

I'm attracted to seeing how different I can be, pushing the boat out.

I have devoted my life to uncertainty. Certainty is the death of wisdom, thought, creativity.

I learned from my dad that change and experimentation are constants and important. You have to keep trying new things.

Spontaneity, the hallmark of childhood, is well worth cultivating to counteract the rigidity that may otherwise set in as we grow older.