Home > Work > Clara and Mr. Tiffany

Clara and Mr. Tiffany QUOTES

Clara and Mr. Tiffany QUOTES

1 " 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 call that the Bicyclist's Philosophy of Life. "

― Susan Vreeland , Clara and Mr. Tiffany

2 " A hard choice. Water or books. Hmm. One could always have wine instead. "

― Susan Vreeland , Clara and Mr. Tiffany

3 " Things that have been lost and then found are doubly precious, don't you think. People too. "

― Susan Vreeland , Clara and Mr. Tiffany

4 " 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. "

― Susan Vreeland , Clara and Mr. Tiffany

5 " What the world calls failure, I call learning. "

― Susan Vreeland , Clara and Mr. Tiffany

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

― Susan Vreeland , Clara and Mr. Tiffany

7 " Reproducing nature slavishly is not art. "

― Susan Vreeland , Clara and Mr. Tiffany

8 " A woman can't stay hard when all around her is loveliness. "

― Susan Vreeland , Clara and Mr. Tiffany

9 " 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 , Clara and Mr. Tiffany

10 " Page 357 - "if the mountain was smooth, you couldn't climb it. "

― Susan Vreeland , Clara and Mr. Tiffany

11 " How easily a parent’s motive could be misconstrued by an injured child. "

― Susan Vreeland , Clara and Mr. Tiffany

12 " To feel the coolness of the blue glass, like solid pieces of the sea. "

― Susan Vreeland , Clara and Mr. Tiffany

13 " Art for art’s sake, we say, because beauty blesses humanity with a better life. "

― Susan Vreeland , Clara and Mr. Tiffany

14 " Train yourselves by seeking and acknowledging beauty moment by moment every day of your lives, "

― Susan Vreeland , Clara and Mr. Tiffany

15 " Exercise your eyes. Take pleasure in the grace of shape and the excitement of color. "

― Susan Vreeland , Clara and Mr. Tiffany

16 " Be courageous with color. Let it pour out of you. "

― Susan Vreeland , Clara and Mr. Tiffany

17 " Nature is God’s work, so I say nature motifs are just as spiritual, just as inspirational, as biblical images. "

― Susan Vreeland , Clara and Mr. Tiffany

18 " Was it wrong for me to want more than constrained existence? Wrong to hunger for change, new faces, a full life? Surprises to please my eyes and ears? "

― Susan Vreeland , Clara and Mr. Tiffany

19 " Styles are merely the copying of what others have done, perhaps done better than we. God has given us our talents so as not to copy the talents of others, but rather to use our own imagination to obtain the revelation of True Beauty. "

― Susan Vreeland , Clara and Mr. Tiffany

20 " His intensity was magnetic, irresistible. "

― Susan Vreeland , Clara and Mr. Tiffany