Corita Kent Quotes

I'm just super into redefining things.

I take references from the past and flip them.

I like the idea of taking a true classic written by a true genius and destroying it essentially! I like the idea of bringing it down to earth a bit - and even a bit lower than that.

The creative principle is less about dogma and more about opening ourselves to the evolution of consciousness.

The idea of reinvention has always seemed bizarre to me.

I'm starting to believe in the power of a name. Because it can't be a mistake if I just call it 'change.'

Creativity has nothing to do with any activity in particular - with painting, poetry, dancing, singing. It has nothing to do with anything in particular.

A fine artist is one who makes familiar things new and new things familiar.

Creativity is the power to reject the past, to change the status quo, and to seek new potential. Simply put, aside from using one's imagination - perhaps more importantly - creativity is the power to act.

A new future requires a new past.

Once you fall into habits, I think, you're dead as an artist. You have to challenge yourself and never rest on your laurels, never think about what you've done in the past.

Creativity...involves the power to originate, to break away from the existing ways of looking at things, to move freely in the realm of the imagination, to create and recreate worlds fully in one's mind-while supervising all this with a critical inner eye.

If there can be some paradigm shift thing that you can be part of, that's cool.

Shake the tree of life itself and bring down fruits unheard of.

The past is what provides us with the building blocks. Our job today is to create new buildings out of them.

The young are always coming up with the good ideas; it's because they waste time. They follow their passion and do something, not looking for a payoff, just doing what's interesting.

Creativity doesn't follow titles. It just comes from where it comes from.

May I say that I approve of a piece that tries to remake the entire puzzle?

You mustn't expect me to repeat myself. My past doesn't interest me. I would rather copy others than copy myself. In that way I should at least be giving them something new. I love discovering things.

Only imagination that towers can reproduce evanescence and render rigidity flexible.

Regular crises perpetuate the past by reinvigorating cycles which started long ago. In contrast, (capital-C) Crises are the past's death knell. They function like laboratories in which the future is incubated. They have given us agriculture and the industrial revolution, technology and the labour contract, killer germs and antibiotics. Once they strike, the past ceases to be a reliable predictor of the future and a brave new world is born.

I changed my name because it didn't fit with the way I saw myself.

I would introduce myself if it were not useless. The name I had last night will not be the same as the name I have tonight. For the moment, then, let me say that I am thinking of Sam Slovoda.

Creativity is any act, idea, or product that changes an existing domain, or that transforms an existing domain into a new one What counts is whether the novelty he or she produces is accepted for inclusion in the domain.

My face felt like my normal face, as if that part of me hadn’t transformed into a bird. [Fine, Sadie. Call me the Carter-headed chicken. Happy?]