"Dear Mother, I meant to write you before this and I hope you haven't been worried.... I have met some Beautiful People and..."

“poetry is where the language is renewed.”

“A deception that elevates us is dearer than a host of low truths.”

“Profound and powerful forces are shaking and remaking our world. And the urgent question of our time is whether we can make change our friend and not our enemy.”

“The heart can only be broken / once, like a window.”

Source : Eduardo C. Corral, “In Colorado My Father Scoured And Stacked Dishes”

“When we're in the water, we're not in this world.”

“Always, when the words art and artistic are applied to my photographic work, I am disagreeably affected. This is due, surely, to the bad use and abuse made of those terms. I consider myself a photographer, nothing more. If my photographs differ from that which is usually done in this field, it is precisely because I try to produce not art but honest photographs, without distortions or manipulations.”

Source : Tina Modotti, Robert Miller, Spencer Throckmorton, Robert Miller Gallery (New York, N.Y.) (1997). “Tina Modotti: photographs”

“There was a time when the music fell silent. Both within me and around me.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

“I would like to think I am feminist in some sorts.”