Identity Quote by Susan Vreeland

““Surely a woman, not just a painter, needs a place where she can nurture her individuality, where she can become. Pascal””

Susan Vreeland

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“The winsome lilt of Digna humming in the garden. Her knowing, almost teasing look, not quite a smile, when she knew she had the upper hand about something, and his willing acquiescence. Her coaxing in the dark next to him - What was your favorite part of the day? - to which he'd always say, because he always thought it…

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“At this stage of life, he'd better just lean into love, because if he fell, he feared he might break a hip.”

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“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…

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“How love builds itself unconsciously, he thought, out of the momentous ordinary.”

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“In the end, it's only the moments that we have.”

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He and I had a bridge that no one else traveled that made us artistic lovers, passionate without a touch of the flesh. He…

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Look long enough, out or in, and you’ll be glad you are who you are.

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“Now he knew . . . that there was nothing so vital as paying attention, and perfecting the humble offices of love.”

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“Overblown responsibility was a part of my preoccupation with myself.”

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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…

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“No one but another painter could know the delicacy required to balance the complexities, to keep reality at bay in order to remain in…

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“A woman can't stay hard when all around her is loveliness.”

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