Siri Hustvedt Quotes About Memories

Quotes about: Memories

• 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

  Memories, Syntax, Coherence

• The faculty of memory cannot be separated from the imagination. They go hand in hand. To one degree or another, we all invent our personal pasts. And for most of us those pasts are built from emotionally colored memories.

  Siri Hustvedt

  Memories, Past, Hands

  Siri Hustvedt (2010). “The Shaking Woman or A History of My Nerves”, p.112, Macmillan

• Memory changes as a person matures.

  Siri Hustvedt

  Memories, Persons

• Memory offers up its gifts only when jogged by something in the present. It isn't a storehouse of fixed images and words, but a dynamic associative network in the brain that is never quiet and is subject to revision each time we retrieve an old picture or old words.

  Siri Hustvedt

  Memories, Brain, Revision

  Siri Hustvedt (2008). “The Sorrows of an American: A Novel”, p.80, Macmillan

• Memory is essential to who we are, and memories can be both implicit and explicit - unconscious and conscious.

  Siri Hustvedt

  Memories, Essentials, Who We Are

  Siri Hustvedt (2010). “The Shaking Woman or A History of My Nerves”, p.38, Macmillan

• The recollections of an older man are different from those of a younger man. What seemed vital at forty may lose its significance at seventy. We manufacture stories, after all, from the fleeting sensory material that bombards us at every instant, a fragmented series of pictures, conversations, odors, and the touch of things and people. We delete most of it to live with some semblance of order, and the reshuffling of memory goes on until we die.

  Siri Hustvedt

  Memories, Men, Order

• 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.

  Siri Hustvedt

  Memories, Character, Artist

  Siri Hustvedt (2006). “Mysteries of the Rectangle: Essays on Painting”, p.19, Princeton Architectural Press

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