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Top Susan Vreeland Quotes

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1. "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." ~ Susan Vreeland
2. "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." ~ Susan Vreeland
3. "Amar es ponerse al cuello el nudo corredizo de la ilusión; adorar a alguien mientras pareces asfixiarte. Pero incluso el amor no correspondido, el amor fugaz, es mejor que nada." ~ Susan Vreeland
4. "She 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 Vreeland
5. "What the world calls failure, I call learning." ~ Susan Vreeland
6. "Work is love made plain, whether man's work or woman's work." ~ Susan Vreeland
7. "Think hard before you begin, then enter the work." ~ Susan Vreeland
8. "God taking from us and loving us at the same time by providing comforters was a kind of spiritual equanimity. It seemed a phenomenon of life how a death insinuates us into the debt of those who stand by us in trouble and console us." ~ Susan Vreeland
9. "Now he knew . . . that there was nothing so vital as paying attention, and perfecting the humble offices of love." ~ Susan Vreeland
10. "He had a thought that amused him. "Figures, still life, landscape, AND an animal! Zola, eat your hat!" he bellowed." ~ Susan Vreeland
11. "Overblown responsibility was a part of my preoccupation with myself." ~ Susan Vreeland
12. "A woman can't stay hard when all around her is loveliness." ~ Susan Vreeland
13. "Page 357 - "if the mountain was smooth, you couldn't climb it." ~ Susan Vreeland
14. "Erasmus says if you must be hanged let it be on fair gallows." ~ Susan Vreeland
15. "I 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 Vreeland
16. "People who would be that close to her, she thought, a matter of a few arms' lengths, looking, looking, and they would never know her." ~ Susan Vreeland
17. "That a thing made by hand, the work and thought of a single craftsman, can endure much longer than its maker, through centuries in fact, can survive natural catastrophe, neglect, and even mistreatment, has always filled me with wonder. Sometimes in museums, looking at a humble piece of pottery from ancient Persia or Pompeii, or a finely wrought page from a medieval illuminated manuscript toiled over by a nameless monk, or a primitive tool with a carved handle, I am moved to tears. The unknown life of the maker is evanescent in its brevity, but the work of his or her hands and heart remains." ~ Susan Vreeland
18. "It was strange: When you reduced even a fledgling love affair to its essentials--I loved her, she maybe loved me, I was foolish, I suffered--it became vacuous and trite, meaningless to anyone else. In the end, it's only the moments that we have, the kiss on the palm, the joint wonder at the furrowed texture of a fir trunk or at the infinitude of grains of sand in a dune. Only the moments." ~ Susan Vreeland
19. "He and I had a bridge that no one else traveled that made us artistic lovers, passionate without a touch of the flesh. He made me thrive, and valuing that, I could do nothing that would endanger it." ~ Susan Vreeland
20. "Everybody works . . . . That's what life is. Work and a little play and a lot of prayer." ~ Susan Vreeland
21. "Things that have been lost and then found are doubly precious, don't you think. People too." ~ Susan Vreeland
22. "How love builds itself unconsciously, he thought, out of the momentous ordinary." ~ Susan Vreeland
23. "A hard choice. Water or books. Hmm. One could always have wine instead." ~ Susan Vreeland
24. "In the end, it's only the moments that we have." ~ Susan Vreeland
25. "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." ~ Susan Vreeland

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Our innate imbalances are further aggravated by practical demands. Our jobs make relentless calls on a narrow band of our faculties, reducing our chances of achieving rounded personalities and leaving us to suspect (often in the gathering darkness of a Sunday evening) that much of who we are, or could be, has gone unexplored. Society ends up containing a range of unbalanced groups, each hungering to sate its particular psychological deficiency, forming the backdrop against which our frequently heated conflicts about what is beautiful plays themselves out."
Author: Alain De Botton

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