Defeat

Good for you April. There are millions of people out there ready and waiting to reject anybody for any reason. For some it’s their job and their hobby combined. Excellent to see your having overturned things. I am very encouraged by this.

You also look good in black.

Fire, teeth, mustard seed, defiance, survival, ferocious intent…...you go, Friend!!!!!!
“The Kingdom of Heaven is taken by force”.....in your beautiful soul is all things worthy fighting for, and all resources and courage to do it with!!!
I BELIEVE IN YOU, APRIL! Woman Artist making HISTORY!
You never cease to impress me….this photo and all it embodies and means, the GREATEST OF ALL!
I am tenaciously and savagely by your side for the duration….....
XOXOX

great pic april! and great work !

April, it may well be that these rejections are no more than signs saying …....’not through here April, there is a better way’....... I have Faith and Belief that things work out in ‘God’s Good Time’ as frustrating as it may be you WILL find your way. In April Mansilla’s Art there is honesty and beauty that few can capture let alone portray. Blend the love around you and your blessed artistic gifts with uncompromising determination. Be Kind to yourself :)

If your hubby is the better half of you I think I love him too! LOL!

You really are beautiful as hell April….I say respectfully of course…..

you look like a top super model :)

You go girl and never give up:)

“It does not matter how slowly you go so long as you do not stop.”
“When the world says, “Give up,”
Hope whispers, ‘Try it one more time.’ “

Your friend Ata says Never, never, never,never give up :)

I enjoyed reading this as we are not alone in our struggles to succeed at whatever makes us happy in this time and space of life and that our struggles are a shared one.U are very talented and the spirit of your art and words are true and strong. U are already a success and the rest will realize this in time.Peace

damn you are gorgeous…

that look on your face is wicked …. : )
your one of my absolute fav artists here on RB … a true artist
some will spend a live time trying, creating, dreaming …. and believing …. and may not make it to where they wanna be …...... you however will one day be recognized as you should be!!!!!
i can’t wait to buy some of your work …. you inspire greatly : )

You are a powerful artist April! Your artwork will always find a way! Keep your faith and know you are deserving!
p.s. if looks could kill….. (its a great pic) =)

Such a glare, April! Pity the fool…

Beautiful you are. Great artist too. If you were to paint your inner beauty ?.. Let it shine with light !
oxo lots of love

ps by that comment I don’t mean that your beauty doesn’t
show through your anguish, it does oxo
I wish gorgeous flowers and light and sunshine for you, and security of peace
and lots of love

wow u r gorgeous!
your work rocks

It is only when we believe our purpose to be at fault can we be truly defeated. Ideas are what drive humans to lift themselves above the muck we spread across the Earth and ideas are what drive back down into it. Grief serves only the purpose of driving us insane as we struggle to focus on the idea that made us stand up in the first place and dream to be more than an animal among so many machines. Consider rejection, if you would, a means to an end. You will never be satisfied with what you have done so long as it came easily, because in the end you are human just like the rest of us…an animal scurrying amidst so many machines, lost and driven only by an idea. Without conflict there can be no resolution and without resolution there is no reason to move forward. In the end, no matter where you find yourself, the things you have created and the lives of people you have touched in your wake will mean more to you than what is waiting for you in what for now, will feel like so far away.

...so fuck them if they can’t take a joke!

Never give up I am already a fan of your work.

Persistance pays. Some publishers and galleries just have no taste, and will only touch the known, because they can not think for themselves.

I KNOW WHAT THAT’S LIKE….

I’ve been talkin to GOD, Dave O! and he said you’re alright mate he told me to show a little respect….. just a little bit ……...R…E …..S……P…E….C……T crazy man OH YEEEEAAAAARRRRHHHH!!!! RIEEEEEEYDEN WITH THE DEVOOOOOOOOL!!!!!!!!!!!! .....shhhhh …….............................i’m also from space Dave O! call the police!
“Through selfless appreciation of the realm of things, the world around you will come alive in ways that you cannot even begin to comprehend with the mind”
I’M ALSO A BIT STRANGE….

YEAH STRINGER ….
YOUR WIERD MAN…

love the message LOL ….and us artist are all a little strange so you are in great company:)

You rock April.

try 35 years at art and rejection haha but i have never missed a day woth out art except when down with the flu or death so keep kicking butt and play our own movie and know nay sayers are usually lookers not doers pax pretty lady

Wonderful concept and I’m so glad you stuck to your guns April.. your work is very, very strong both emotionally and aesthetically.
Really glad I got to peruse through all your drawings here.. thank you!
-Leith in South Oz

Good for you April , never ever give up , i like that , most people who made it in the arts have been rejected alot before they make it , stay strong .
regards Al Neaimi.

Your work is of such a high standard I can’t understand why ANYONE would reject it … it’s their loss, I assure you.

Always keep going and never give up.

Every people have suicidal tendency, some one can defeat some can’t.
April you have done a great job. I feel it.

Hey-I like your spirit! You’re a fighter. Me too. :)
Stay strong. Shake the dust off your feet….slap that smile back on your face..
and carry on! What some reject, others embrace. It’s the great ferris wheel of life, eh?
I like your style. :)

all around fierce

april i would love to photograph you.

you are such a doll. im so glad to make you feel this way. at least i make one person smile…LOL.

btw, where i canada do you live…why dont u come over to syd? its warmer? lol.

wonderful….

I do the same with my music…and I laugh at the rejections, because I’m always getting letters from women thanking me for touching them with my songs. Screw the critics!

I love your philosophies, April…you are a deep thinker and we need more of those today…I’m so glad you joined ITY. It is for people like you, that the site was creatied. You indefatiguable attitude is what the world needs more of!

congratulation
have a beautiful 2009

Great Spirit!...April,
Keep it up….............

How anyone can reject your work is beyound comprehension.Your attention to detail in your art is splendid.

I’m so blown away, not only by the obvious talent exhibited in your work… but the pure power of the look-the-motherfucking-truth-in-the-eye of it!
This is transcendent! Your heart must be the size of a watermelon! lol

really so nice …... so cute…. i like so much……pls. be in touch .

krishan.

i love your work and your a very beautiful woman too.

hang in, i,ve been at this 40 years,,in the end,you do this for you, and you, get discovered by?you, the world will catch up- if its suposed to- nice powerful art

Lovely!

April ..your art is powerful … it is not easy for many to accept …. I do accept it and cherish it :)

You are more than a survivor, hell, you might be our saviour…