"I remember being disappointed when Papa had shown……" — Susan Vreeland
"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..."
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11 Quotes by Susan Vreeland
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What the world calls failure, I call learning.
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Think hard before you begin, then enter the work.
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Look long enough, out or in, and you’ll be glad you are who you are.
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God taking from us and loving us at the same time by providing comforters was a kind of spiritual equanimity.…
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That a thing made by hand, the work and thought of a single craftsman, can endure much longer than its…
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It was strange: When you reduced even a fledgling love affair to its essentials--I loved her, she maybe loved me,…
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Everybody works . . . . That's what life is. Work and a little play and a lot of prayer.
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If two people love the same thing, she reasoned, then they must love each other, at least a little, even…
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You know, bicycling isn't just a matter of balance," I said. "it's a matter of faith. You can keep upright…
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He and I had a bridge that no one else traveled that made us artistic lovers, passionate without a touch…
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Representation of the world, like the world itself, is the work of men; they describe it from their own point…
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Once the last trace of emotion has been eradicated, nothing remains of thought but absolute tautology.
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