I saw Joseph Cornell’s lyrical work for the first time at the Museum of Modern Art in the late seventies and have internalized many of his boxes. Siri Hustvedt Read Quote
Years ago, when I was in Siena for the first time, I saw the works of Duccio, whose deeply emotional painting from the thirteenth century has never left me. Siri Hustvedt Read Quote
Writing isn’t a job so much as a compulsion. I’ve been writing since I was very young because for some strange reason, I must write, and also because when I write, I feel more alive and closer to the world than when I’m not writing. Siri Hustvedt Read Quote
The idea that skiing might not be fun, might not be for everyone, had never occurred to me. Where I come from, the sport signified pleasure, nature, family happiness. Siri Hustvedt Read Quote
The future is, of course, imaginary – an unreal place that I create from my expectations, which are made from my remembered experiences, especially repeated experiences. Siri Hustvedt Read Quote
Our great cultural error is to assume that ‘truth’ arrives only through reductive theories. Siri Hustvedt Read Quote
The mind-brain is lived only from a first-person perspective, and it is a dynamic, plastic organ that changes in relation to the environment. Siri Hustvedt Read Quote
I watched ‘Holiday’ in college, and that was when I had my first fantasy of being Katharine Hepburn, standing at the top of the staircase in a huge Hollywood mansion. Siri Hustvedt Read Quote
Intellectual curiosity about one’s own illness is certainly born of a desire for mastery. If I couldn’t cure myself, perhaps I could at least begin to understand myself. Siri Hustvedt Read Quote
