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Susan Vreeland
American Author
Born: Jan 20, 1946
Died: Aug 23, 2017
Art God Love Me Time World
Related authors: F. Scott Fitzgerald Frederick Douglass Helen Keller Henry David Thoreau Joyce Meyer Mark Twain Og Mandino Zig Ziglar
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
Art Peace Commitment Compassion Become Understanding Community Civil Cruel Individuals Without Isolated Domestic Tragic Human Where Literature Forms Turn Then Connection Violence
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
God Grace Interior Painting Feel Dear Domestic Itself Quiet Trains Us Landscape Thing
'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
Love Culture Liberty Party Other France Evocative Statue Statue Of Liberty Collection Triumphant Both French American Owned Which Washington Served Image Symbol
I could say diamonds are a girl's best friend, and that never changes. But the taste for art did change. Susan Vreeland
Art Best Change Girl Changes Say Best Friend Could Never Diamonds Friend Did Taste
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
Quality Every Our Air Minds Voice Writers Observant Developing Soup Mixed Up Get Story Even Nuance
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. Susan Vreeland
You First Painting Frame Put Idea First Thing Around Making Material Were Close Getting The First Thing Being Where Thing Last
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
Art Young Pursued Lifelong Never Had Although Always Been Very Artists Oil Interested Grandfathers Exposed Painters Even Career Two
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. Susan Vreeland
Me Yourself Please Email Say Would About Write Come Readers Readership Much Your Novel
I don't know if a historian or scholar owns an opinion. Susan Vreeland
Scholar Know Opinion Historian Owns
Color has always been important to me, ever since my first deluxe box of Crayolas. Susan Vreeland
Me First Important Color Since Box Always Been Ever
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. Susan Vreeland
Love Extracted Mines Color Had Mere Beyond Learned Were Hues Link Wheel Artistic Substantial Which Region Warm Ore Produced Near
Art history looks at art works and the people who have created them. Susan Vreeland
Art History People Looks Art History Them Created Who Works
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. Susan Vreeland
Me Travel Writing Strong Made Immediately Visiting Emily Voice Write Colors Attracted Discovery Authentic Article Personal While Victoria Appealed Fascinated Original Her
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. Susan Vreeland
Healing World Past Strife Hopeful Find Silent Both Tension Much Paintings
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
Art Me Soul Painting Say Eye Both Poetry Feed Feeds Begets Just Which Ear
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
Great Me Strong Nine Guided Paper Magic Small Brush Colors He Until Lily Great-Grandfather Mix His Hand Surrounding Taught Grandfather Landscape Page Painter Appeared Watercolor
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
Values Sacrifice Willing More Argue River Tower She Covered Than Person Liquid Influence Flat Land Landscape Viewed
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
Life Time Enter Small Step Another Human Upwards Race Human Race Each Each Time Elevation
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
Architecture Looking Settings Books States Could Absorb Impressionist Clothing Clues Many Paintings United United States Museums
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. Susan Vreeland
Art Time Culture Writing Resonate Value Own Imagination Our Address Those About Allow Period Periods Another Issues Effect Time Period Place Us Inhabit Paintings

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