Quotes by Siri Hustvedt, A Woman Looking at Men Looking at Women: Essays on Art, Sex, and the Mind

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In order to be accepted, women must compensate for their ambition and strength by being nice. Men don't have to be nearl — Siri Hustvedt, A Woman Looking at Men Looking at Women: Essays on Art, Sex, and the Mind
I am fascinated that no one I have read seems to have noticed that the literature on Picasso continually turns grown-up — Siri Hustvedt, A Woman Looking at Men Looking at Women: Essays on Art, Sex, and the Mind
Artists are cannibals. We consume other artists, and they become part of us—flesh and bone—only to be spewed out again i — Siri Hustvedt, A Woman Looking at Men Looking at Women: Essays on Art, Sex, and the Mind
The best works of art are never innocuous: they alter the viewer's perceptual predictions. It is only when the patterns — Siri Hustvedt, A Woman Looking at Men Looking at Women: Essays on Art, Sex, and the Mind
The history of art is full of women lying around naked for erotic consumption by men. — Siri Hustvedt, A Woman Looking at Men Looking at Women: Essays on Art, Sex, and the Mind
There is no perception without memory. But good art surprise us. Good art reorients our expectations, forces us to break — Siri Hustvedt, A Woman Looking at Men Looking at Women: Essays on Art, Sex, and the Mind
My purely practical advice: Don't get excited. Don't raise your voice. Bite back. Bite back hard, but never cry. — Siri Hustvedt, A Woman Looking at Men Looking at Women: Essays on Art, Sex, and the Mind