“ You know, bicycling isn't just a matter of balance, I said. 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. I'm going to ca… Susan Vreeland
“ The only place Aletta and I could be together unseen was just under the rafters in the church tower, a circumstance that propelled us into an earlier intimacy than what we would have known had we been… Susan Vreeland
“ If you feel joy when you do something unselfish for him, and would just as soon do it in secret as openly, then that rings of the true metal Susan Vreeland
“ Train yourselves by seeking and acknowledging beauty moment by moment every day of your lives, he told them. Exercise your eyes. Take pleasure in the grace of shape and the excitement of color. Susan Vreeland
“ 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
“ No matter where life takes you,’ she said, ‘the place where you stand at any moment is holy ground. Love hard and love wide and love long, and you will find the goodness in it. Susan Vreeland
“ What could she possibly have done that was so heinous as to earn her a lifetime of self-mortification? No one short of a tyrant deserved such unremitting agony. I cried there with her, for her, for Ev… Susan Vreeland
“ Palmira. She’s like an apparition floating unknowingly into her future,' I said. 'Here for too brief a time. Susan Vreeland
“ 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.… Susan Vreeland
“ She was a desperate woman with frailties just like her, temptations just like her, a woman who had needs, a woman who loved almost to the point of there being no more her anymore, a woman who probably… Susan Vreeland
“ A moon of startling brightness rose over the rooftops, lifted on a divine, invisible thread... Susan Vreeland
“ I came to see that knowing what love isn't might be just as valuable, though infinitely less satisfying, as knowing what it is. Susan Vreeland
“ At some times in our lives, our passion makes us perpetrators of hurt and loss. At other times we are the ones who are hurt—all in the name of art. Sometimes we get what we want. Sometimes we pay for… Susan Vreeland
“ If a person loves something above all else, if he values the work of his heart and hands, then he should naturally, without hesitation, pour into it his whole soul, undivided and pure. Great art deman… Susan Vreeland
“ Put herself back together again and again. She would drink the forest liquids and drench herself in possibility. 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,… Susan Vreeland
