Quotessence
Home / Authors / Siri Hustvedt
Siri Hustvedt

Siri Hustvedt Quotes

Novelist

Filter quotes by topic

AllMenMemoriesImaginationReadingStoriesThinkingDreamFictionBookPeopleWritingBrainDesireHumansOrderArtBehindsBodyConsciousnessEmotional

Famous Siri Hustvedt Quotes

“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.”

HumansLooksPersonsStillsCharacterArtistOrderIndividualMemoriesSimpleBehindsEffectsPaintingDependsResponseWho We AreSimple Truths
Book:Mysteries of the Rectangle: Essays on Painting
Create image

“The logic: Reading is a private pursuit, one that often takes place behind closed doors. A young lady might retreat with a book, might even take it into her boudoir, and there, reclining on here silken sheets, imbibing the thrills and chills manufactured by writerly quills, one of her hands, one not absolutely needed to grip the little volume, might wander. The fear, in short, as one-handed reading. [p. 146]”

LittlesBookHandsMightYoungReadingBehindsDoorsNeededLogicPursuitWanderVolumeSheetsRetreatChillClosed DoorsYoung LadiesBehind Closed DoorsQuillsBoudoirImbibing
Book:The Summer Without Men
Create image