Mothers, Fathers, and Others Quotes

“Art cannot be fixed to a single location because lived experience is not left behind in the room where the object rests unseen at night after the museum has closed its doors. The art object travels in many bodies in multiple forms and it speaks and writes and sings in many languages.It is a living thing.”
― Siri Hustvedt, Mothers, Fathers, and Others: Essays

“We acquire the feelings of others, especially beloved others, and imagine that what we have never seen or touched belongs to us, too, by imaginative connection.”
― Siri Hustvedt, Mothers, Fathers, and Others: Essays

“We are all, to one degree or another, made of what we call “memory”, not only the bits and pieces of time visible to us in pictures that have hardened with our repeated stories, but also the memories we embody and don’t understand.”
― Siri Hustvedt, Mothers, Fathers, and Others: Essays