Quotes from Susan Vreeland

She was a desperate woman with frailties just like her, temptations just like her, a woman who had needs, a woman who loved almost to the point of there being no more her anymore, a woman who probably cried too much, just like her, a woman afraid, wanting to believe rather than believing [...]

The only place Aletta and I could be together unseen was just under the rafters in the church tower, a circumstance that propelled us into an earlier intimacy than what we would have known had we been permitted to walk together Sunday afternoons under the wide sky.

No matter where life takes you,' she said, 'the place where you stand at any moment is holy ground. Love hard and love wide and love long, and you will find the goodness in it.

Sì. Ma la bellezza non è tutto. E' meglio essere assetati di bellezza e comprenderla, che essere belli e basta. Alla fine la vita risulta più ricca. Un giorno forse lo imparerà.

The trouble with us is that we've been too polite with each other.

One more thing. She wears Patchouli. Every tart in Montmartre wears it. Place Pigalle reeks of it. If she wants to carry out her pose as an aristocrat, she ought to refine her tastes.

Het zou me heel wat waard zijn te weten waar hij op dit moment aan dacht. Als de ene persoon zeker kon weten wat de andere persoon dacht of aan het doen was, zou eenzaamheid in de wereld misschien ophouden te bestaan.

He lived so badly, it seemed, because he always came into the moment encumbered

Her stony coldness was more convincing of the cataclysm than the dirt. Argument was as futile now as blame in Eden. I could not bear to look at her. She had cast away her soul.

Art for art's sake, we say, because beauty blesses humanity with a better life.

Train yourselves by seeking and acknowledging beauty moment by moment every day of your lives

Exercise your eyes. Take pleasure in the grace of shape and the excitement of color.

Be courageous with color. Let it pour out of you.

There was something in this girl he could never grasp, an inner life inscrutable to him. He was in awe of the child's flights of fancy, her insatiable passion always to be running off somewhere, her active inner life.

Nature is God's work, so I say nature motifs are just as spiritual, just as inspirational, as biblical images.

Was it wrong for me to want more than constrained existence? Wrong to hunger for change, new faces, a full life? Surprises to please my eyes and ears?

We are not botanists. We are artists. Suggest nature, but conventionalize it. Stylize it. Simplify it to its contour lines to convey structure.

Non esiste un ingresso che immetta nella fortezza dell'anima.

Has it ever occurred to you that to clutch at life fearfully, unwilling to spend it, is not a form of gratitude to God for life?" Lizzie looked at her as if pained by some bright light. "But to fling one's whole being at a goal of interpreting God's creation—

No matter where life takes you...the place where you stand at any moment is holy ground. Love hard and love wide and love long, and you will find the goodness in it.

Styles are merely the copying of what others have done, perhaps done better than we. God has given us our talents so as not to copy the talents of others, but rather to use our own imagination to obtain the revelation of True Beauty.

life we can't control, she thought. We must accept the cork we are and stay afl, and bob gaily when we can. She

I had always held the notion that if two people love the same thing, they must love each other as well, but now the memories of that love had been tarnished by betrayal.

What I want to do and what I have to do are always fighting each other like alley cats.