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 Read Quote
I ventured into fiction in 1988 with ‘What Love Sees,’ a biographical novel of a woman’s unwavering determination to lead a full life despite blindness. Susan Vreeland Read Quote
I suppose it’s easier for most writers to create and vivify characters of their own gender. Susan Vreeland Read Quote
Susan B. Anthony said that the bicycle did more to emancipate women than any other single thing. The bicycle was linked in the psyches of women at that time as a symbol of practical emancipation. Women could go places, wear their skirts shorter to manage the bicycle, and be independent. Susan Vreeland Read Quote
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 Read Quote
It was only after I began to write fiction that I found a way to connect with painting. Susan Vreeland Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
