Modotti's Quotes

#1. I wanted a bookstore because the book business is the business of life.

George Whitman

#2. I can understand how some people might resent me for having the audacity to continue playing music, but it'd take a lot more than that to stop me from doing it. I started Foo Fighters because I didn't want to retreat.

Dave Grohl

#3. I'm not sure that it matters as much to women as to our male colleagues to have the public adulation and be on the public mind.

Jenny Shipley

#4. While I was making 'Coraline' I barely got to see any films at all, so I've got a lot of catching up to do.

Henry Selick

#5. 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

#6. I mean normally you have your agent call the other agent and all the agents talk and then finally you get a phone call and you hear some misrepresentation of what someone else had to say.

Radha Mitchell

#7. When we are forced to endure what we cannot endure, something breaks inside our minds. That broken-mindedness is commonly called trauma.

John A. Macdougall

#8. I filmed 'Albatross' before I got 'Downton.' It's a coming-of-age movie about this girl who leaps into this family's life, like a whirlwind. She's ballsy and brash and wonderful, it was such an amazing character to play.

Jessica Brown Findlay

#9. Conflict, not progress, is the word that defines man's path from darkness into light. No holiness is won by any other means than this, that wickedness should be slain day by day, and hour by hour.

Alexander MacLaren

#10. 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

#11. 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

#12. I address you with neither rancor nor bitterness in the fading twilight of life, with but one purpose in mind: to serve my country.

Douglas MacArthur

#13. 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

#14. She isn't sure whether she believes in God or not, though she always told her pastor she did. She isn't sure any woman ought to believe in God.

Amber Sparks

#15. Brief is this existence, as a visit in a strange house. The path to be pursued is poorly lit by a flickering consciousness.

Albert Einstein

#16. 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

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

Tina Modotti

#18. The end goal of every growth hacker is to build a self-perpetuating marketing machine that reaches millions by itself. - AARON GINN

Ryan Holiday

#19. Fresh popcorn is near impossible to resist, second only to fresh doughnuts.

Shannon Wiersbitzky