Time & Perspective Quote by Corita Kent

Kent’s line doesn’t romanticize spontaneity so much as weaponize it. “Love the moment” sounds like a bumper sticker until you remember who’s saying it: an artist-nun turned pop-inflected agitator whose prints braided scripture, advertising, and protest into a single bright language. In that context, “moment” isn’t private bliss; it’s the charged now of a march, a classroom, a neighborhood, a mass media loop. It’s where attention becomes action.

The key move is her use of “energy,” a deliberately non-mystical term that still feels spiritual. Energy is what you can generate together without agreeing on doctrine. It’s also what art traffics in: color, repetition, rhythm, urgency. Kent’s work understood that the affect of an image or phrase travels faster than its argument. You don’t persuade first; you infect the room with a pulse strong enough to make people move.

“Spread beyond all boundaries” reads as both promise and strategy. Boundaries are aesthetic (high art vs. commercial graphics), institutional (church vs. street), and political (who gets to speak, who gets listened to). Kent’s sentence implies that if you fully inhabit a moment - not consume it, not archive it, but commit to it - the overflow is inevitable. The subtext is optimism with teeth: solidarity is contagious, and the smallest unit of change isn’t a policy paper; it’s a felt intensity that refuses to stay contained.