Modotti Quotes

#1. Most of Tina Modotti's work that is known to the photography world was done in Mexico in the years 1923 through 1926, when she lived and worked with Edward Weston.

John Szarkowski

#2. Pure your gentle name, pure your fragile life,
bees, shadows, fire, snow, silence and foam,
combined with steel and wire and
pollen to make up your firm
and delicate being.
Pablo Neruda's epitaph for Tina Modotti

Pablo Neruda

#3. On Halloween, kids get to assume, for one night the outward forms of their innermost dread, and they're also allowed to take candy from strangers - the scariest thing of all.

Kate Christensen

#4. I cannot, as you [Edward Weston] once proposed to me - solve the problem of life by losing myself in the problem of art ... in my case, life is always struggling to predominate and art naturally suffers.

Tina Modotti

#5. There are darknesses in life and there are lights, and you are one of the lights, the light of all lights.

Bram Stoker

#6. I never would have believed that I would be so strong and not lose my head in a situation where the wind of collective insanity is blowing.

Tina Modotti

#7. I have a bad feeling about this," she said.
"We'll fake it. And if push comes to shove, we can just sing Goober Peas and waltz around."
"Rebecca might not find that very funny."
"Rebecca is a Northerner. You can tell because there aren't any cheese straws on the snack table.

Mary Jane Hathaway

#8. The whole conception of 'sin' is one which I find very puzzling, doubtless owing to my sinful nature.

Bertrand Russell

#9. The majority of photographers still seek artistic effects, imitating other mediums of graphic expression. The result is a hybrid product that does not succeed in giving their work the most valuable characteristic it should have, - photographic quality.

Tina Modotti

#10. As we explore new ways of thinking, we need to be willing to investigate, experiment, take some risks with our attention, and stretch.

Sharon Salzberg

#11. So you think that hip-hop had it's start out in Queensbridge, If you popped that junk up in the Bronx you might not live.

KRS-One

#12. I cannot solve the problem of life by losing myself in the problem of art.

Tina Modotti

#13. Whoever has really sacrificed anything, knows that he wanted and got something in return.

Friedrich Nietzsche