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

- Susan Rothenberg

I think artists almost always end up turning to what's around them, what's in their environment or outside their window.

- 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

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 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

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

I think there has to be an interesting transformative process between your perception of reality and making the paintings. If you are just trying to …

- 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