Rachel Claire > Rachel's Quotes

“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 disrupted that we truly pay attention and must ask ourselves what we are looking at.”
― Siri Hustvedt, A Woman Looking at Men Looking at Women: Essays on Art, Sex, and the Mind

“Nothing epitomizes the futility of human striving quite like aspartame.”
― Tom Rachman, The Imperfectionists