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" 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
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" 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. "
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Own
Seeing
" 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. "
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Light
Strength
" I'm hoping that I make readers into museum goers and museum goers into readers. "
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Museum
Make
Hoping
" 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
" I suppose it's easier for most writers to create and vivify characters of their own gender. "
Susan Vreeland
Easier
Gender
Own
" 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. "
Susan Vreeland
Never
Who
Think
" 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. "
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Lead
Determination
Life
" 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. "
Susan Vreeland
American
Lamp
Side
" 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. "
Susan Vreeland
Looking
Clothing
Museums
" 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
Race
Small
Human
" The company, Tiffany Studios, ended up in bankruptcy in 1930 - early '30s. "
Susan Vreeland
Early
Studios
Up
" 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
" Art history looks at art works and the people who have created them. "
Susan Vreeland
Art
People
Looks
" 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. "
Susan Vreeland
God
Joy
Me
" 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
" When I think how art education is eliminated whenever we get a budget crunch in the schools, I have to stand up and say that even when there was dire poverty ten blocks away from Tiffany Studios in the Lower East Side of Manhattan, there was art and creativity within. "
Susan Vreeland
Education
Art
Creativity
" 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. "
Susan Vreeland
Always
Relationships
Personal
" 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. "
Susan Vreeland
Life
Art
World
" 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
" When I see Tiffany windows in churches across the United States, I get a sense of spiritual upliftment from that. "
Susan Vreeland
See
Windows
Spiritual
" Whatever it is that can help to bring God close is something to be revered. "
Susan Vreeland
Bring
God
Help
" I don't know if a historian or scholar owns an opinion. "
Susan Vreeland
Historian
Know
Scholar
" 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. "
Susan Vreeland
Sacrifice
Influence
She
" I wanted to keep a Gothic cathedral alive in my heart. "
Susan Vreeland
Keep
Cathedral
Gothic
" 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
Magic
Strong
Small
" It was only after I began to write fiction that I found a way to connect with painting. "
Susan Vreeland
Write
Way
Painting
" '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. "
Susan Vreeland
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
Community
Peace
Compassion
" 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. "
Susan Vreeland
Women
Independent
Said
" 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. "
Susan Vreeland
Green
Girl
Blue