Girl pencil drawing-1

 

Above all, be the heroine of your life. Not the victim.

You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses.

Being confident and believing in your own self-worth is necessary to achieving your potential.

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

If you are always trying to be normal, you’ll never know how amazing you can be.

Drawing Quotes.

• The artist is not a different kind of person, but every person is a different kind of artist.-Eric Gill

• You can look at a picture for a week and never think of it again. You can also look at the picture for a second and think of it all your life.-Joan Miro

• The artist sees what others only catch a glimpse of.-Leonardo da Vinci

• Practice what you know and it will help you to make clear what you do not know.- Rembrandt

• Learning to draw is really a matter of learning to see - to see correctly - and that means a good deal more than merely looking with the eye.-Kimon Nicolaides

• The great artists of the past were aware that human life is full of chaos and suffering. But they had a remedy for this. And the name of that remedy was ‘beauty’. The beautiful work of art brings consolation in sorrow and affirmation in joy. It shows human life to be worthwhile.-Roger Scruton

• One must always draw, draw with the eyes, when one cannot draw with a pencil.-Balthus

• How you draw is a reflection of how you feel about the world. You're not capturing it, you're interpreting it.- Juliette Aristides

• If you hear a voice within you saying, ”You are not a painter,” then by all means paint… and that voice will be silenced.-Vincent van Gogh

• Painting is easy when you don't know how, but very difficult when you do.- Edgar Degas

• Stay firmly in your path and dare. Be wild two hours a day!-  Paul Gauguin

Short story

Tina Modotti: Disowned Activist Photographer

Tina Modotti (1896-1942) died in Mexico and was politically committed like Frida Kahlo. Unlike her compatriot, Modotti was long forgotten by art history. She was known as a great photographer during her lifetime; nothing predestined this young girl who was forced to work in a factory at the age of 12.

After emigrating to the United States, she was spotted for her beauty and became a model, before starting an acting career in Hollywood. She met there the photographer Edward Weston, who made her his muse and taught her the technique of photography. It was during their trips to Mexico that she met artists link to the Communist Party. She decided to use her art to support political and social causes and became a photojournalist for the Mexican communist newspaper, El Machete. After leaving photography behind, she fully devoted herself to the fight against fascism. In 1936, she joined the International Red Cross and took part in the defense of Madrid against the Francoists. After fleeing Spain for America, she helped Spanish refugees and died there at the age of 45.

Gérard de Cortanze dedicated his last novel to the life of Tina Modotti. He had made a series of biographies about women within the 20th century artistic world, including Frida Kahlo and Violette Morris, in a style that is as romantic as ever, making the story more exciting.