Susan Paterson > Quotes

“I am not so interested in what a biologist or chemist might say a thing is, but in what a thing implies. How perspective is simply that: a point of view, an awareness of ourselves and what lies beyond our simple eyes. A way of seeing that can be altered, expanded, reinvented.”
― Susan Paterson, Where Light Meets Water

“As a woman I am accustomed to hearing of my deficiencies. But are war and history and religion the only moving subjects? They are someone else’s subjects. What surrounds me has its own meaning: is it not luminous too?”
― Susan Paterson, Where Light Meets Water

“Oh, I must use all my talents in life if I am to build with tiny bricks.”
― Susan Paterson, Where Light Meets Water

“…Eventually you pick up the brush to hear the sound of your own voice.”
― Susan Paterson, Where Light Meets Water