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" 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
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" I suppose it's easier for most writers to create and vivify characters of their own gender. "
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" It was only after I began to write fiction that I found a way to connect with painting. "
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" Whatever it is that can help to bring God close is something to be revered. "
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" 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. "
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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. "
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" Art history looks at art works and the people who have created them. "
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" When I was nine, my great grandfather, a landscape painter, taught me to mix colors. With his strong hand surrounding my small one, he guided the brush until a calla lily appeared as if by magic on a page of textured watercolor paper. "
Susan Vreeland
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Strong
Small
" When I see Tiffany windows in churches across the United States, I get a sense of spiritual upliftment from that. "
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" 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. "
Susan Vreeland
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" '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. "
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Party
Love
Image
" Where there is no human connection, there is no compassion. Without compassion, then community, commitment, loving-kindness, human understanding, and peace all shrivel. Individuals become isolated, the isolated turn cruel, and the tragic hovers in the forms of domestic and civil violence. Art and literature are antidotes to that. "
Susan Vreeland
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Peace
Compassion
" 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
Soul
Me
Eye
" I'm hoping that I make readers into museum goers and museum goers into readers. "
Susan Vreeland
Museum
Make
Hoping
" I could say diamonds are a girl's best friend, and that never changes. But the taste for art did change. "
Susan Vreeland
Best Friend
Art
Girl
" The company, Tiffany Studios, ended up in bankruptcy in 1930 - early '30s. "
Susan Vreeland
Early
Studios
Up
" Writers have to be observant. Every nuance, every inflection in a voice, the quality of air, even - they all get mixed up in this soup of the story developing in our minds. "
Susan Vreeland
Soup
Story
Voice
" Color has always been important to me, ever since my first deluxe box of Crayolas. "
Susan Vreeland
Box
Always
Color
" To feel the grace of God in a painting of the dear, quiet commonness of a domestic interior, or in a landscape, seascape, cityscape, trains us to feel the grace of God in the thing itself in situ. "
Susan Vreeland
Landscape
God
Quiet
" I don't know if a historian or scholar owns an opinion. "
Susan Vreeland
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Know
Scholar
" I wanted to keep a Gothic cathedral alive in my heart. "
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" 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! "
Susan Vreeland
Glass
Woman
Everyone
" 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. "
Susan Vreeland
Art
Own
Seeing
" Two of my grandfathers had been artists, lifelong oil painters, so I was exposed to art very young. I've always been interested in it, although I never pursued it as a career or even as an avocation. "
Susan Vreeland
Oil
Young
Always
" 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. "
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Colors
Strong
Writing
" 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. "
Susan Vreeland
New
Glass
Women
" 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. "
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Much
Healing
Find
" 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. "
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" 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. "
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