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title: "2 Carpe Quotes By Corita Kent"
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> [In this speedy world of ours when facts are multiplying rapidly and giant rearrangements are happening all around us, it seems dangerous to be made nervous by the new - to want what we can never have, to want things…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/corita-kent/in-this-speedy-world-of-ours-when-facts-are-multiplying-rapidly-and/)

[Corita Kent](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/corita-kent/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ea3/corita-kent-20084_able_in-this-speedy-world-of-ours-when-facts_1836662.png)

> [To understand is to stand under which is to look up to which is a good way to understand.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/corita-kent/to-understand-is-to-stand-under-which-is-to-look-up-to-which-is-a/)

[Corita Kent](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/corita-kent/)

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## Other authors on Carpe

## More by Corita Kent

> [Earnestness and sincerity are synonymous.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/corita-kent/earnestness-and-sincerity-are-synonymous/)

[Corita Kent](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/corita-kent/)

> [Damn everything but the circus](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/corita-kent/damn-everything-but-the-circus/)

[Corita Kent](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/corita-kent/)

> [A responsible person is one who responds.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/corita-kent/a-responsible-person-is-one-who-responds/)

[Corita Kent](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/corita-kent/)

> [A painting is a symbol for the universe. Inside it, each piece relates to the other. Each piece is only answerable to the rest…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/corita-kent/a-painting-is-a-symbol-for-the-universe-inside-it-each-piece-relates/)

[Corita Kent](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/corita-kent/)

> [Not all of us are painters but we are all artists. Each time we fit things together we are creating - whether it is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/corita-kent/not-all-of-us-are-painters-but-we-are-all-artists-each-time-we-fit/)

[Corita Kent](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/corita-kent/)

> [To create is to relate. We trust in the artist in everybody to make his own connections, his own juxtapositions.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/corita-kent/to-create-is-to-relate-we-trust-in-the-artist-in-everybody-to-make/)

[Corita Kent](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/corita-kent/)

> [That's why people listen to music or look at paintings. To get in touch with that wholeness.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/corita-kent/that-s-why-people-listen-to-music-or-look-at-paintings-to-get-in/)

[Corita Kent](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/corita-kent/)

> [Consider everything an experiment.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/corita-kent/consider-everything-an-experiment/)

[Corita Kent](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/corita-kent/)

> [I am not brave enough to not pay my income tax and risk going to jail. But I can say rather freely what I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/corita-kent/i-am-not-brave-enough-to-not-pay-my-income-tax-and-risk-going-to-jail/)

[Corita Kent](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/corita-kent/)

> [When you get past making labels for things, it is possible to combine and transform elements into new things. Look at things until their…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/corita-kent/when-you-get-past-making-labels-for-things-it-is-possible-to-combine/)

[Corita Kent](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/corita-kent/)

> [Nothing is a mistake. There’s no win and no fail. There’s only make.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/corita-kent/nothing-is-a-mistake-there-s-no-win-and-no-fail-there-s-only-make/)

[Corita Kent](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/corita-kent/)

> [Women's liberation is the liberation of the feminine in the man and the masculine in the woman.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/corita-kent/women-s-liberation-is-the-liberation-of-the-feminine-in-the-man-and/)

[Corita Kent](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/corita-kent/)

> [It is a huge danger to pretend that awful things do not happen. But you need enough hope to keep going. I am trying…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/corita-kent/it-is-a-huge-danger-to-pretend-that-awful-things-do-not-happen-but/)

[Corita Kent](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/corita-kent/)

> [Art does not come from thinking but from responding.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/corita-kent/art-does-not-come-from-thinking-but-from-responding/)

[Corita Kent](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/corita-kent/)

> [Celebration is a kind of food we all need in our lives, and each individual brings a special recipe or offering, so that together…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/corita-kent/celebration-is-a-kind-of-food-we-all-need-in-our-lives-and-each/)

[Corita Kent](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/corita-kent/)

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