--- title: "1 Painting Symbol Quotes By Corita Kent" description: "1 Painting Symbol quotes by Corita Kent. Plus more from Corita Kent and more Painting Symbol sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/73b/corita-kent-20084_artist_a-painting-is-a-symbol-for-the-universe_440078.png" --- > [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…](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/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/73b/corita-kent-20084_artist_a-painting-is-a-symbol-for-the-universe_440078.png) ## 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/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/painting-symbol/corita-kent/#itemlist", "name": "1 Painting Symbol Quotes By Corita Kent", "numberOfItems": 1, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "A painting is a symbol for the universe. 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