With almost no exceptions, art by men is much more expensive than art by women. Even great women artists, like Louise Bourgeois… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
“The history of art is full of women lying around naked for erotic consumption by men.” — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
I saw Joseph Cornell's lyrical work for the first time at the Museum of Modern Art in the late seventies and have… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
I love making up visual works of art in language. I get to be an artist without actually being an artist in… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
“Artists are cannibals. We consume other artists, and they become part of us—flesh and bone—only to be spewed out again in our… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
I knew I wanted to be a writer at 13. Before that, I told everyone I was going to be an artist. — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
I have a longstanding fascination with visual art. I do, in fact, draw as well, as I did in 'The Summer without… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
I continue to write essays about art. The visual is always part of my work, and it gives me immense pleasure to… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
“I am fascinated that no one I have read seems to have noticed that the literature on Picasso continually turns grown-up women… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
“And later in the letter, he elaborated further, "It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance, for our consideration and… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
“James believed in the power of art, not because he thought it would change the world or because he imagined it could… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
“A powerfully imagined event can evoke the same emotions as a real event. Few artists would contradict this, and yet there no… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
In effect, painting is the still memory of [the artist's] human motion, and our individual responses to it depend on who we… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
“There is no perception without memory. But good art surprise us. Good art reorients our expectations, forces us to break the pattern,… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
“the idea of "extension" makes sense to me because art and the world can't be as easily divided as we sometimes imagine.… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
“The best works of art are never innocuous: they alter the viewer's perceptual predictions. It is only when the patterns of our… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
I am married to a writer, and this - writing - is an odd enterprise. It's something we both support very strongly. — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
With almost no exceptions, art by men is much more expensive than art by women. Even great women artists, like Louise Bourgeois and Lee… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
I love the little garden in the back of my family's brownstone in Brooklyn. Digging out there in the dirt is a joy for… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
I watched 'Holiday' in college, and that was when I had my first fantasy of being Katharine Hepburn, standing at the top of the… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
When I don't get enough sleep, I am cranky, vulnerable to headaches, and my concentration is poor. — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
“Transformation of the self are related to where you are, and identity Is dependent on others.” — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
There's a phenomenology of being sick, one that depends on temperament, personal history, and the culture which we live in. — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
The faculty of memory cannot be separated from the imagination. They go hand in hand. To one degree or another, we all invent our… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
“Looking is part of love, but what you see when you look is anybody's guess.” — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
Every sickness has an alien quality, a feeling of invasion and loss of control that is evident in the language we use about it. — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
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