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
Every painting is always two paintings: The one you see, and the one you remember. — 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 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
“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
Years ago, when I was in Siena for the first time, I saw the works of Duccio, whose deeply emotional painting from… — 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
“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
“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
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
“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
“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
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
![“In effect, painting is the still memory of [the artist's] human motion, and our individual responses to it depend on who we are, on our character, which underlines the simple truth that no person leaves himself behind in order to look at a painting.” quote by Siri Hustvedt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/d66/siri-hustvedt-860_art_in-effect-painting-is-the-still-memory-o_3044685.jpg)
