Look long enough, out or in, and you’ll be glad you are who you are. Susan Vreeland More Quotes by Susan Vreeland More Quotes From Susan Vreeland 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 story quality voice soup 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 frame being you painting 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 career never always art I'm hoping that I make readers into museum goers and museum goers into readers. Susan Vreeland readers hoping museum make When I see Tiffany windows in churches across the United States, I get a sense of spiritual upliftment from that. Susan Vreeland i-see get see spiritual 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 poverty creativity education art 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 museum never think people 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 gift window world art 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 your say yourself me I don't know if a historian or scholar owns an opinion. Susan Vreeland owns know scholar opinion It was only after I began to write fiction that I found a way to connect with painting. Susan Vreeland write only painting way 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 glass new women new-york 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 everyone american woman 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 me gratitude god art 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 compassion peace art 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 interior personal always history
