Susan Vreeland

Author

1946-01-20

Books by Susan Vreeland

The passion of Artemisia
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Madchen In Hyazinthblau / Girl in Hyacinth Blue
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Luncheon of the Boating Party
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Quotes by Susan Vreeland

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
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No one but another painter could know the delicacy required to balance the complexities, to keep reality at bay in order to remain in the innermost center of his work.
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Bicyclist's Philosophy of Life...It's a matter of faith. You can keep upright only by moving forward. You have to have your eyes on the goal, not the ground.
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re: cutting glass...You have to be in command of the glass, telling it where to release its hold on itself. Just like life. Otherwise it will splinter.
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You know, bicycling isn't just a matter of balance, I said. it's a matter of faith. You can keep upright only by moving forward. You have to have your eyes on the goal, not the ground. I'm going to call that the Bicyclist's Philosophy of Life.
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No one but another painter could know the delicacy required to balance the complexities, to keep reality at bay in order to remain in the innermost center of his work.
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You know, bicycling isn't just a matter of balance, I said. it's a matter of faith. You can keep upright only by moving forward. You have to have your eyes on the goal, not the ground. I'm going to call that the Bicyclist's Philosophy of Life.
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Bicyclist's Philosophy of Life...It's a matter of faith. You can keep upright only by moving forward. You have to have your eyes on the goal, not the ground.
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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
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re: cutting glass...You have to be in command of the glass, telling it where to release its hold on itself. Just like life. Otherwise it will splinter.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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'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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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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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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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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