Author: Susan Vreeland

Cites

• John Berger (1)
  • IN: Life Studies (2005) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: The real question is: To whom does the meaning of art of the past properly belong? To those who can apply it to their own lives, or to a cultural hierarchy of relic specialists?
    FROM: Ways of Seeing, (1977), Book, UK
• W. H. Auden (1)
  • IN: The Passion of Artemisia (2002) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: About suffering they were never wrong, The Old Masters: how well they understood Its human position; how it takes place While someone else is eating or opening a window or just walking dully along.
    FROM: Musee des Beaux Arts, (1940), Poem, US/England
• Emily Carr (1)
  • IN: The Forest Lover (2004) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: There is something bigger than fact: the underlying spirit, all it stands for, the mood, the vastness, the Western breath of go-to-the-devil-if-you-don't like it., the eternal big spaceness of it. Oh the West! I'm of it and I love it.
    FROM: Hundreds and Thousands, (1966), Book, Canada
• Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1)
  • IN: The Forest Lover (2004) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: This is the forest primeval. The murmuring pines and the hemlocks, Bearded with moss, and in garments green Indistinct in the twilight Stand like Druids of eld, With voices sad and prophetic.
    FROM: Evangeline, (1847), Poem, US/England
• Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1)
  • IN: Luncheon of the Boating Party (2007) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: To my mind, a picture should be something pleasant, cheerful, and pretty, yes pretty! There are too many unpleasant things in life as it is without creating still more of them.
    FROM: NULL, (None), [NA], France
• Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1)
  • IN: Luncheon of the Boating Party (2007) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
    FROM: Faust, (1790), Saying, Germany
• John Keats (1)
  • IN: Girl in Hyacinth Blue (1999) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Thou still unravished bride of quietness Thou foster-child of Silence and slow Time... Thou, silent form! dost tease us out of thought As doth eternity.
    FROM: NULL, (1819), Poem, UK
• Marc Chagall (1)
  • IN: Lisette's List (2014) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: In our life there is a single color, as on an artist's palette, which provides the meaning of life and art. It is the color of love.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, Russia/France