Susan Vreeland Quotes

I love color. When I paint, I use a lot of color. I love art that has a vibrancy of color and compositions. I adore the Impressionists, and I'm influenced strongly by them as a self-taught artist.

Nature engenders the science of painting.

The actual technique, the process of painting flat color and simple geometric edges, all dates from my time here on Coenties Slip.

I really like the language of painting.

The painter I really thought I could learn from was Cezanne - some sort of resemblance to oranges and greens and browns of the dry season in St. Lucia.

If you think about art, if you look at Rembrandt and Vermeer and Caravaggio, if you look at Turner and Constable and all the Impressionists and the Hudson River School, there's a tradition of light in art, especially painting.

The animation of the canvas is one of the hardest problems of painting.

I like form and shape and strength in pictures.

One learns about painting by looking at and imitating other painters.

What do you see when you look at a representational painting? Most of the time, the first thing I see is a flat piece of canvas covered with colored patterns.

Monet was like a conductor. He painted with quite a straight arm and used bold strokes.

I paint landscapes, figuratives. I painted all my life. In fact, I started as a commercial artist.

Most of the power of painting comes through the manipulation of space... but I don't understand that.

Nudes are the greatest to paint. Everything you can find in a landscape or a still life or anything else is there: darkness and light, character dimension, texture. I painted heads too, of course.

A great painting is a great painting.

Now, I love painting. I love looking. I love the fact that they don't move. They constantly change with the light. They are sort of patient.

I paint in acrylic and sometimes in oil. Sometimes I'll paint my kids. And I'll occasionally do some photography.

Painting is a science, and should be pursued as an inquiry into the laws of nature.

For painting, I like strong lines, powerful pieces.

I love art, painting, and drawing and studying art, like Rembrandt and Van Gogh.

I was a fine arts major in college, and a painter for many years. And I found that, like writing, art is very similar.

I'm very interested in the language of photography in relationship to painting.

Painters were also attorneys, happy storytellers of anecdote, psychologists, botanists, zoologists, archaeologists, engineers, but there were no creative painters.

Anyone who doesn't know anything about art knows the name of at least one artist.

When I was painting in art school - and I think many painters in the 1980s worked similarly - a finished painting would often be constructed from lots of other paintings underneath. Some of these individual layers of painting were better than others, but that was something that you would often only realise retrospectively.