The paintings are like prayers, relating to wishing for something beyond everyday life.

- Susan Rothenberg

I can say that paintings are prayers, they have to do with anything that makes you wish for more that what everyday life provides.

- Susan Rothenberg

I think I care about beauty, but I don't go for it. I hope it sometimes might be in there. I think, maybe, more in terms of a beautiful moment than t…

- Susan Rothenberg

Most of my painting is done sitting in a chair with a book. I'd say it's 80 per cent sitting and reading, 10 per cent eating and ten per cent paintin…

- Susan Rothenberg

Some of the pictures are truly mysterious to me.. which is why I so often say publicly that I don't know or don't care what they're really about. And…

- Susan Rothenberg

Sometimes the painting starts to relate very directly to either sights seen or experiences felt, other times it just goes off on a tangent that you r…

- Susan Rothenberg

I started to try to be a colorist, although secretly thinking of myself as somewhat of a black and whiteist.

- Susan Rothenberg

You build up a head of steam. If you're four days out of the studio, on the fifth day you really crash in there. You will kill anybody who disturbs y…

- Susan Rothenberg

The problem with Matisse is that I can't ever figure out when he's done a good painting or a bad painting because I don't know how to analyse him. I …

- Susan Rothenberg