Francesca Woodman: Personal Journal

Entries from the personal journal of the young talented artist - photographer - Francesca Woodman.

• “Am I in the picture? Am I getting in or out of it? I could be a ghost, an animal or a dead body, not just this girl standing on the corner…?”

• “I was inventing a Language for people to see…” (last journal entry. January 19, 1981)

• “Then at one point I did not need to translate the notes; they went directly to my hands” (1976)

• “Real things don’t frighten me just the ones in my mind do.”

  
  

"Thoughts on Art and Life" by Leonardo da Vinci

The notes of Leonardo da Vinci introduced and edited by Lewis Einstein and Maurice Baring.
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•  "let not thy rage or malice destroy so great a thing as life, for he who does not value it does not deserve it"
• "That which can be lost cannot be deemed riches. Virtue is our true wealth and the true reward of its possessor; it cannot be lost, it never deserts us until life leaves us. Hold property and external riches with fear; they often leave their possessor scorned and mocked at for having lost them."
• "the age which flies glides by in stealth and deceives others; and nothing is more swift than the years, and he who sows virtue reaps glory."
• "A long life is a life well spent."