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" The company, Tiffany Studios, ended up in bankruptcy in 1930 - early '30s. "
Susan Vreeland
Early
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Up
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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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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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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 could say diamonds are a girl's best friend, and that never changes. But the taste for art did change. "
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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. "
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" 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. "
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New
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Women
" 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! "
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" 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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Imagination
Time
" When I learned that near Roussillon there were ochre quarries and mines from which was extracted the ore which produced pigments in all the warm hues of the color wheel, I had a substantial artistic link to this region beyond mere love. "
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Wheel
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" 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. "
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Soup
Story
Voice
" When I see Tiffany windows in churches across the United States, I get a sense of spiritual upliftment from that. "
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See
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" 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
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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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Green
Girl
Blue
" 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. "
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American
Lamp
Side
" 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. "
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God
Joy
Me
" To me, art begets art. Painting feeds the eye just as poetry feeds the ear, which is to say that both feed the soul. "
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Soul
Me
Eye
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Always
Color
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Who
Think
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Bring
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Help
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Keep
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" Art history looks at art works and the people who have created them. "
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People
Looks
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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. "
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" 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 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
" 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. "
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Creativity
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