Memory is essential to who we are, and memories can be both implicit and explicit - unconscious and conscious. — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
Our memory fragments don't have any coherence until they're imagined in words. Time is a property of language, of syntax, and tense. — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
I have found that all of my memories seem to need a place and that a good part of what we think… — 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
Memory offers up its gifts only when jogged by something in the present. It isn't a storehouse of fixed images and words,… — 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… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
“Memories that have never been told aren't yet solid stories; they are potential stories. It may be that the interlocutor is the… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
The recollections of an older man are different from those of a younger man. What seemed vital at forty may lose its… — 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)
