What the world calls failure, I call learning.
Susan VreelandThings that have been lost and then found are doubly precious, don't you think. People too.
Susan VreelandOverblown responsibility was a part of my preoccupation with myself.
Susan VreelandWork is love made plain, whether man’s work or woman’s work.
Susan VreelandThink hard before you begin, then enter the work.
Susan VreelandMots clés art
At this stage of life, he'd better just lean into love, because if he fell, he feared he might break a hip.
Susan VreelandShe sat very still, listening to a stream gurgling, the breeze soughing through upper branches, the melodious kloo-klack of ravens, the nyeep-nyeep of nuthatches - all sounds chokingly beautiful. She felt she could hear the cool clean breath of growing things - fern fronds, maple leaves, white trillium petals, tree trunks, each in its rightful place.
Susan VreelandMots clés nature-s-beauty
If you want to preach, young man, you ought to wear some kind of clerical costume so people would be warned. In my mind, there are too many unpleasant things in life as it is without creating still more of them. I hate le misérabilisme. I’m in the shining business, not the darkening business.
Susan VreelandPage 357 - "if the mountain was smooth, you couldn't climb it.
Susan VreelandI remember being disappointed when Papa had shown me Caravaggio's Judith. She was completely passive while she was sawing through a man's neck. Caravaggio gave all the feeling to the man. Apparently, he couldn't imagine a woman to have a single thought. I wanted to paint her thoughts, if such a thing were possible -- determination and concentration and belief in the absolute necessity of the act. The fate of her people resting on her shoulders...
Susan VreelandMots clés art-in-fiction-susan-vreeland quote-the-passion-of-artemisia
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