Corita Kent
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"Corita Kent", aka "Sister Mary Corita Kent", was born "Frances Elizabeth Kent" in Fort Dodge, Iowa/Fort Dodge, Iowa. Kent was an Americans/American Catholic nun, an artist, and an educator who worked in Los Angeles and Boston.

She worked almost exclusively with silkscreen, or serigraphy, helping to establish it as a fine art medium. Her artwork, with its messages of love and peace, was particularly popular during the Counterculture of the 1960s/social upheavals of the 1960s and 1970s. Kent designed the 1985 United States Postal Service's annual "love" stamp.

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

Love the moment, and the energy of that moment will spread beyond all boundaries.

Love the moment. Flowers grow out of dark moments. Therefore, each moment is vital. It affects the whole. Life is a succession of such moments and to live each, is to succeed.

Life is a succession of moments, To live each one is to succeed.

Earnestness and sincereness are synonymous.

Damn everything but the circus.

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 harmony, but we get only little tastes of it.

Women's liberation is the liberation of the feminine in the man and the masculine in the woman.