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Susan Vreeland quotes: Page 357 - if the mountain was smooth, you couldn't climb it.

Page 357 - if the mountain was smooth, you couldn't climb it.

Susan Vreeland quotes: I suppose it's easier for most writers to create and vivify characters of their own gender.

I suppose it's easier for most writers to create and vivify characters of their own gender.

Susan Vreeland quotes: It was only after I began to write fiction that I found a way to connect with painting.

It was only after I began to write fiction that I found a way to connect with painting.

Susan Vreeland quotes: In the end, it's only the moments that we have.

In the end, it's only the moments that we have.

Susan Vreeland quotes: Look long enough, out or in, and you'll be glad you are who you are.

Look long enough, out or in, and you'll be glad you are who you are.

Susan Vreeland quotes: Love is so easily bruised by the necessity of making choices.

Love is so easily bruised by the necessity of making choices.

Susan Vreeland quotes: Erasmus says if you must be hanged let it be on fair gallows.

Erasmus says if you must be hanged let it be on fair gallows.

Susan Vreeland quotes: If I don't love the feelings I have while creating those windows, I'm only working for coin and not from soul.

If I don't love the feelings I have while creating those windows, I'm only working for coin and not from soul.

Susan Vreeland quotes: How easily a parent's motive could be misconstrued by an injured child.

How easily a parent's motive could be misconstrued by an injured child.

Susan Vreeland quotes: No matter where life takes you,' she said, 'the place where you stand at any moment is holy ground.

No matter where life takes you,' she said, 'the place where you stand at any moment is holy ground.

Susan Vreeland quotes: Color has always been important to me, ever since my first deluxe box of Crayolas.

Color has always been important to me, ever since my first deluxe box of Crayolas.

Susan Vreeland quotes: Now he knew ... that there was nothing so vital as paying attention, and perfecting the humble offices of love.

Now he knew ... that there was nothing so vital as paying attention, and perfecting the humble offices of love.

Susan Vreeland quotes: Painting. Carefully, I took down the goat, the chicken, and me and

Painting. Carefully, I took down the goat, the chicken, and me and

Susan Vreeland quotes: I wanted to keep a Gothic cathedral alive in my heart.

I wanted to keep a Gothic cathedral alive in my heart.

Susan Vreeland quotes: Work is love made plain, whether man's work or woman's work.

Work is love made plain, whether man's work or woman's work.

Susan Vreeland quotes: I'm hoping that I make readers into museum goers and museum goers into readers.

I'm hoping that I make readers into museum goers and museum goers into readers.

Susan Vreeland quotes: Maybe that's what love was walking willingly into the unknown for the sake of the other.

Maybe that's what love was
walking willingly into the unknown for the sake of the other.

Susan Vreeland quotes: Overblown responsibility was a part of my preoccupation with myself.

Overblown responsibility was a part of my preoccupation with myself.

Susan Vreeland quotes: A hard choice. Water or books. Hmm. One could always have wine instead.

A hard choice. Water or books. Hmm. One could always have wine instead.

Susan Vreeland quotes: Reproducing nature slavishly is not art.

Reproducing nature slavishly is not art.

Susan Vreeland quotes: Things that have been lost and then found are doubly precious, don't you think. People too.

Things that have been lost and then found are doubly precious, don't you think. People too.

Susan Vreeland quotes: Art history looks at art works and the people who have created them.

Art history looks at art works and the people who have created them.

Susan Vreeland quotes: To me, art begets art. Painting feeds the eye just as poetry feeds the ear, which is to say that both feed the soul.

To me, art begets art. Painting feeds the eye just as poetry feeds the ear, which is to say that both feed the soul.

Susan Vreeland quotes: Readers would email me and say, 'Please write a novel about so-and-so,' but it has to come from yourself and not so much from your readership.

Readers would email me and say, 'Please write a novel about so-and-so,' but it has to come from yourself and not so much from your readership.

Susan Vreeland quotes: Whatever it is that can help to bring God close is something to be revered.

Whatever it is that can help to bring God close is something to be revered.

Susan Vreeland quotes: There is so much strife and tension in the world that I find the silent world of paintings from the past both hopeful and healing.

There is so much strife and tension in the world that I find the silent world of paintings from the past both hopeful and healing.

Susan Vreeland quotes: To live and move and have her being in a flow of blue.

To live and move and have her being in a flow of blue.

Susan Vreeland quotes: To feel the coolness of the blue glass, like solid pieces of the sea.

To feel the coolness of the blue glass, like solid pieces of the sea.

Susan Vreeland quotes: He had a thought that amused him. "Figures, still life, landscape, AND an animal! Zola, eat your hat!" he bellowed.

He had a thought that amused him. "Figures, still life, landscape, AND an animal! Zola, eat your hat!" he bellowed.

Susan Vreeland quotes: The company, Tiffany Studios, ended up in bankruptcy in 1930 - early '30s.

The company, Tiffany Studios, ended up in bankruptcy in 1930 - early '30s.

Susan Vreeland quotes: At this stage of life, he'd better just lean into love, because if he fell, he feared he might break a hip.

At this stage of life, he'd better just lean into love, because if he fell, he feared he might break a hip.

Susan Vreeland quotes: People who would be that close to her, she thought, a matter of a few arms' lengths, looking, looking, and they would never know her.

People who would be that close to her, she thought, a matter of a few arms' lengths, looking, looking, and they would never know her.

Susan Vreeland quotes: Everybody works ... That's what life is. Work and a little play and a lot of prayer.

Everybody works ... That's what life is. Work and a little play and a lot of prayer.

Susan Vreeland quotes: If you feel joy when you do something unselfish for him, and would just as soon do it in secret as openly, then that rings of the true metal

If you feel joy when you do something unselfish for him, and would just as soon do it in secret as openly, then that rings of the true metal

Susan Vreeland quotes: I could say diamonds are a girl's best friend, and that never changes. But the taste for art did change.

I could say diamonds are a girl's best friend, and that never changes. But the taste for art did change.

Susan Vreeland quotes: Allowing beauty a place in the soul was a powerful antidote to the stress and strain of mortal life.

Allowing beauty a place in the soul was a powerful antidote to the stress and strain of mortal life.

Susan Vreeland quotes: What the world calls failure, I call learning.

What the world calls failure, I call learning.

Susan Vreeland quotes: How love builds itself unconsciously, he thought, out of the momentous ordinary.

How love builds itself unconsciously, he thought, out of the momentous ordinary.

Susan Vreeland quotes: When I see Tiffany windows in churches across the United States, I get a sense of spiritual upliftment from that.

When I see Tiffany windows in churches across the United States, I get a sense of spiritual upliftment from that.

Susan Vreeland quotes: A woman can't stay hard when all around her is loveliness.

A woman can't stay hard when all around her is loveliness.

Susan Vreeland quotes: I've come to think that if doing something simple or silly can give a person pleasure, then, by God, do it

I've come to think that if doing something simple or silly can give a person pleasure, then, by God, do it

Susan Vreeland quotes: Each time we enter imaginatively into the life of another, it's a small step upwards in the elevation of the human race.

Each time we enter imaginatively into the life of another, it's a small step upwards in the elevation of the human race.

Susan Vreeland quotes: Think hard before you begin, then enter the work.

Think hard before you begin, then enter the work.

Susan Vreeland quotes: If two people love the same thing, she reasoned, then they must love each other, at least a little, even if they never say it.

If two people love the same thing, she reasoned, then they must love each other, at least a little, even if they never say it.

Susan Vreeland quotes: I don't know if a historian or scholar owns an opinion.

I don't know if a historian or scholar owns an opinion.

Susan Vreeland quotes: You think because I am her mother I can remake her?

You think because I am her mother I can remake her?