Clara and Mr. Tiffany Quotes

“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

“A hard choice. Water or books. Hmm. One could always have wine instead.”
― Susan Vreeland, Clara and Mr. Tiffany

“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

“Things that have been lost and then found are doubly precious, don't you think. People too.”
― Susan Vreeland, Clara and Mr. Tiffany

“What the world calls failure, I call learning.”
― Susan Vreeland, Clara and Mr. Tiffany

“God taking from us and loving us at the same time by providing comforters was a kind of spiritual equanimity. It seemed a phenomenon of life how a death insinuates us into the debt of those who stand by us in trouble and console us.”
― Susan Vreeland, Clara and Mr. Tiffany

“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

“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

“Page 357 - "if the mountain was smooth, you couldn't climb it.”
― Susan Vreeland, Clara and Mr. Tiffany

“How easily a parent’s motive could be misconstrued by an injured child.”
― Susan Vreeland, Clara and Mr. Tiffany

“A woman can't stay hard when all around her is loveliness.”
― Susan Vreeland, Clara and Mr. Tiffany

“To feel the coolness of the blue glass, like solid pieces of the sea.”
― Susan Vreeland, Clara and Mr. Tiffany

“No need to worry. Diamonds are made under pressure, and you’re our brilliant Claire.”
― Susan Vreeland, Clara and Mr. Tiffany

“A year passes like a revolving wheel, and when the spoke of January comes round again, it finds itself in a different place. And so with pain. It does not leave us where it found us.”
― Susan Vreeland, Clara and Mr. Tiffany

“Reproducing nature slavishly is not art.”
― Susan Vreeland, Clara and Mr. Tiffany

“His intensity was magnetic, irresistible.”
― Susan Vreeland, Clara and Mr. Tiffany

“The trouble with us is that we’ve been too polite with each other.”
― Susan Vreeland, Clara and Mr. Tiffany

“William uncorked the bottle and poured. 'Here’s to the end of summer.' 'A beautiful summer,' Bernard added. 'I wish it would last forever,' Alice said. 'You wouldn’t value it as much,' said Bernard. 'When joys are sparse, they sink into you more deeply.”
― Susan Vreeland, Clara and Mr. Tiffany

“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

“docks—I thought of these acts as love offerings to me. Despite the time and intensity he gave to others, he made me feel that I was the vessel into which he was pouring his best self. I realized I had come to love him for his hunger to bless. The”
― Susan Vreeland, Clara and Mr. Tiffany

“Edwin must have extended himself to this woman who the world would never know existed. His compassion for others had a strange effect on me. Every time I learned of some help he gave to someone, I felt he was giving the kindness to me.”
― Susan Vreeland, Clara and Mr. Tiffany

“God taking from us and loving us at the same time by providing comforters was a kind of spiritual equanimity. It seemed a phenomenon of life how a death insinuates us into the debt of those who stand by us in trouble and console us.”
― Susan Vreeland, Clara and Mr. Tiffany

“What I want to do and what I have to do are always fighting each other like alley cats.”
― Susan Vreeland, Clara and Mr. Tiffany

“We are not botanists. We are artists. Suggest nature, but conventionalize it. Stylize it. Simplify it to its contour lines to convey structure.”
― Susan Vreeland, Clara and Mr. Tiffany

“If I don’t love the feelings I have while creating those windows, I’m only working for coin and not from soul.”
― Susan Vreeland, Clara and Mr. Tiffany

“I had always held the notion that if two people love the same thing, they must love each other as well, but now the memories of that love had been tarnished by betrayal.”
― Susan Vreeland, Clara and Mr. Tiffany

“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

“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

“Be courageous with color. Let it pour out of you.”
― Susan Vreeland, Clara and Mr. Tiffany

“Exercise your eyes. Take pleasure in the grace of shape and the excitement of color.”
― Susan Vreeland, Clara and Mr. Tiffany