I’m hoping that I make readers into museum goers and museum goers into readers. Susan Vreeland Read Quote
When I was nine, my great grandfather, a landscape painter, taught me to mix colors. With his strong hand surrounding my small one, he guided the brush until a calla lily appeared as if by magic on a page of textured watercolor paper. Susan Vreeland Read Quote
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 Read Quote
I absorbed as many Impressionist paintings as I could, in Parisian museums and in many museums in the United States and in books, looking for clues to architecture, clothing, settings. Susan Vreeland Read Quote
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 Read Quote
The Tiffany lamp is an American icon bridging the immigrants, settlement houses, and the slums of the Lower East Side and the wealthy industrialists of upper Manhattan, the Gilded Age and its excesses. Susan Vreeland Read Quote
Luncheon of the Boating Party,’ owned by The Phillips Collection in Washington, D.C., has served Americans as a symbol of France and French culture, both of which I love, and is as evocative and triumphant an image as that other emissary of France, the Statue of Liberty. Susan Vreeland Read Quote
When I see Tiffany windows in churches across the United States, I get a sense of spiritual upliftment from that. Susan Vreeland Read Quote
