Susan Vreeland Both Quotations

To me, art begets art. Painting feeds the eye just as poetry feeds the ear, which is to say that both feed the soul.

'Luncheon of the Boating Party,' owned by The Phillips Collection in Washington, D.C., has served Americans as a symbol of France and French culture, both of which I love, and is as evocative and triumphant an image as that other emissary of France, the Statue of Liberty.

There is so much strife and tension in the world that I find the silent world of paintings from the past both hopeful and healing.