98 Quotes by Susan Vreeland

He and I had a bridge that no one else traveled that made us artistic lovers, passionate without a touch of the flesh. He made me thrive, and valuing that, I could do nothing that would endanger it.

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. In the end, it's only the moments that we have, the kiss on the palm, the joint wonder at the furrowed texture of a fir trunk or at the infinitude of grains of sand in a dune. Only the moments.

No matter where life takes you... the place where you stand at any moment is holy ground. Love hard and love wide and love long, and you will find goodness in it.

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.

A woman can’t stay hard when all around her is loveliness.

I’ve come to think that if doing something simple or silly can give a person pleasure, then, by God, do it.

Allowing beauty a place in the soul was a powerful antidote to the stress and strain of mortal life.

Things will change, Father. They must. And art can help create the change.

Find some beauty along the way.