I suppose it's easier for most writers to create and vivify characters of their own gender.
Each time we enter imaginatively into the life of another, it's a small step upwards in the elevation of the human race.
I wanted to keep a Gothic cathedral alive in my heart.
To me, art begets art. Painting feeds the eye just as poetry feeds the ear, which is to say that both feed the soul.
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.
Whatever it is that can help to bring God close is something to be revered.
Art history looks at art works and the people who have created them.
Color has always been important to me, ever since my first deluxe box of Crayolas.
It was only after I began to write fiction that I found a way to connect with painting.
I don't know if a historian or scholar owns an opinion.
When I see Tiffany windows in churches across the United States, I get a sense of spiritual upliftment from that.
I'm hoping that I make readers into museum goers and museum goers into readers.
The company, Tiffany Studios, ended up in bankruptcy in 1930 - early '30s.
I could say diamonds are a girl's best friend, and that never changes. But the taste for art did change.
