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" After one hundred days of confinement following a bone marrow transplant, I rejoiced in taking short walks to a nearby park as I was writing 'Girl in Hyacinth Blue.' The uncertainty of my survival made every blade of grass gorgeous in its green intensity, lifting itself up, doing its part to make the world beautiful. "
Green
Girl
Blue
" Archival and published history does not always record personal relationships of historical figures, so characters must be invented to allow the subject to reveal their interior realm through intimate interaction. "
Always
Relationships
Personal
" Art history looks at art works and the people who have created them. "
Art
People
Looks
" As New York careens toward the modernity of the twentieth century when Gibson girls were transforming themselves into working women, Clara Driscoll enters the male field of stained glass artistry and builds a lively, multi-national, multi-class women's department within Tiffany Studios. "
New
Glass
Women
" Color has always been important to me, ever since my first deluxe box of Crayolas. "
Box
Always
Color
" Coming out of the Louvre for the first time in 1971, dizzy with new love, I stood on Pont Neuf and made a pledge to myself that the art of this newly discovered world in the Old World would be my life companion. "
Life
Art
World
" Each time we enter imaginatively into the life of another, it's a small step upwards in the elevation of the human race. "
Race
Small
Human
" For a century, everyone assumed that the iconic Tiffany lamps were conceived and designed by that American master of stained glass. Not so! It was a woman! "
Glass
Woman
Everyone
" I absorbed as many Impressionist paintings as I could, in Parisian museums and in many museums in the United States and in books, looking for clues to architecture, clothing, settings. "
Looking
Clothing
Museums
" I could say diamonds are a girl's best friend, and that never changes. But the taste for art did change. "
Best Friend
Art
Girl
" I don't know if a historian or scholar owns an opinion. "
Historian
Know
Scholar
" I made my personal discovery of Emily Carr while visiting Victoria in 1981 to write a travel article. Immediately, her strong colors attracted me; her spunk fascinated me. Her down-to-earth voice in her writing appealed to me as authentic and original. "
Colors
Strong
Writing
" I'm hoping that I make readers into museum goers and museum goers into readers. "
Museum
Make
Hoping
" I pored over art books and absorbed the placidness of Monet's garden, the sparkling color of the Impressionists, the strength and solidity of Michelangelo's figures showing the titanic power of humans at one with God, Jan Vermeer's serene Dutch women bathed in gorgeous honey-colored light... My conviction grew that art was stronger than death. "
Art
Light
Strength
" I suppose it's easier for most writers to create and vivify characters of their own gender. "
Easier
Gender
Own
" It was only after I began to write fiction that I found a way to connect with painting. "
Write
Way
Painting
" I ventured into fiction in 1988 with 'What Love Sees,' a biographical novel of a woman's unwavering determination to lead a full life despite blindness. "
Lead
Determination
Life
" I wanted to keep a Gothic cathedral alive in my heart. "
Keep
Cathedral
Gothic
" I would like to bring people who have never been to a museum into a museum. And I would like to bring museum goers into libraries. I think there ought to be this cross-fertilization. "
Never
Who
Think
" I write about art out of gratitude to painters for the joy and spiritual uplift they have given me. Painters interpret for us the visual glories of God and, in this way, bring us closer to Him. "
God
Joy
Me
" Landscape is more than flat land covered by floodwater, the seeping of peat bogs, a river of liquid pewter viewed from a sentry tower. It's an influence on what a person values, what she is willing to sacrifice or argue for. "
Sacrifice
Influence
She
" 'Luncheon of the Boating Party,' owned by The Phillips Collection in Washington, D.C., has served Americans as a symbol of France and French culture, both of which I love, and is as evocative and triumphant an image as that other emissary of France, the Statue of Liberty. "
Party
Love
Image
" 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. "
Say
Write
Your
" Susan B. Anthony said that the bicycle did more to emancipate women than any other single thing. The bicycle was linked in the psyches of women at that time as a symbol of practical emancipation. Women could go places, wear their skirts shorter to manage the bicycle, and be independent. "
Women
Independent
Said
" The company, Tiffany Studios, ended up in bankruptcy in 1930 - early '30s. "
Early
Studios
Up
" The gift art gives us is that instead of seeing only our own world, we see into other times, which offers a window into other cultures and sensibilities. "
Art
Own
Seeing
" The idea of being close to where pigments were mined - that's the first thing in making a painting, getting the material. And what's the last thing you do in making a painting? You put a frame around it. "
Frame
Last
Where
" 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. "
Much
Healing
Find
" The Tiffany lamp is an American icon bridging the immigrants, settlement houses, and the slums of the Lower East Side and the wealthy industrialists of upper Manhattan, the Gilded Age and its excesses. "
American
Lamp
Side
" The value of writing about art is its effect on the imagination. Paintings allow us to inhabit another culture, place, and time period, and address the issues of those time periods that resonate with our own time. "
Culture
Imagination
Time
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