Art Quote by Siri Hustvedt

“Whereas an art that affects you in the moment, but which you then find hard to remember, is straining to bring you to another…

— Maggie Nelson

“It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with, we cease to see.”

— Anaïs Nin

“Art does not reproduce what we see. It makes us see.”

— Paul Klee

“But art should require no instrument but memory.”

— Paul Theroux

“We must remember, however, that art is of value only to the extent that it speaks to us. It might be a universal language…

— Kakuzō Okakura

“Memory cannot produce a picture that Imagination has not retouched; and her pictures, even the ones least touched by Imagination, are no mere photographs,…

— Henry de Vere Stacpoole

“But, memory paints impressionistic portraits of the past, enhancing some images and blurring others. To her,”

— Monique Martin

“You know one thing that Mr. Powell taught me? He taught me that sometimes, art can make you forget everything else all around you.…

— Gary D. Schmidt

“The best works of art are never innocuous: they alter the viewer's perceptual predictions. It is only when the patterns of our vision are…

— Siri Hustvedt

“To the soul, memory is more important than planning, art more compelling than reason, and love more fulfilling than understanding.”

— Thomas Moore

“It must be remembered that no art lives by nature, only by acts of voluntary attention on the part of human individuals. When these…

— C.S. Lewis

“guess this is what we mean when we talk about the persistence of memory, this or something like this, something you see at the…

— Stephen King