Harriet Hume Quotes

“works of art feel towards human beings exactly as we do towards ghosts. The transparency of spectres, the diffuseness in space which lets them drift through doors and walls, and their smell of death, disgust us not more than we disgust works of art by our meaninglessness, our diffuseness in time which lets us drift through three score years and ten without a quarter as much significance as a picture establishes instantaneously.”
― Rebecca West, Harriet Hume

“I always have beauty around me, for I have but to go to my piano, and trace one of the million designs that have been made by my masters.”
― Rebecca West, Harriet Hume

“we disgust works of art by our meaninglessness, our diffuseness in time which lets us drift through three score years and ten without a quarter as much significance as a picture establishes instantaneously”
― Rebecca West, Harriet Hume

“Each of us has always hoped that a stranger would come who would scatter holy water on the image of the other and lay it for ever”
― Rebecca West, Harriet Hume