Sirens & Muses Quotes

“I think it's easy when you're neglecting your own happiness to inadvertently neglect the happiness of the people you love. It's sort of like you think you're being selfless or self-sacrificial or something, but really you're just sowing misery everywhere you go.”
― Antonia Angress, Sirens & Muses

“They sat there in silence, each avoiding the other's gaze, and Karina felt the moment slipping away from her. "I think--" she began. "I think that the people we become infatuated with are the ones who have the qualities we want.”
― Antonia Angress, Sirens & Muses

“Uncertainty could be a kind of hope.”
― antonia angress, Sirens & Muses

“What did they have to look forward to but mountains of student debt, a 9% unemployment rate, a planet, on the verge of environmental collapse, and an art market that would ignore the vast majority of them while lavishing millions of dollars on a favored seemingly randomly selected few?”
― Antonia Angress, Sirens & Muses

“Let me think about it." It wasn't a yes, but it wasn't a no either, and for now that felt like enough. Uncertainty could be a kind of hope.”
― Antonia Angress, Sirens & Muses

“The sitter is merely the accident, the occasion. It is not he who is revealed by the painter; it is rather the painter who, on the colored canvas, reveals himself.”
― Antonia Angress, Sirens & Muses

“It all felt precarious somehow, as though Karina might fly away should Louisa make any sudden movements. It was a bit like having a lucid dream - the thrilling awareness of the possibilities at hand coupled with the vertiginous knowledge that at any moment it all might fall apart. Perhaps, Louisa thought, this was what it felt like to make great art.”
― Antonia Angress, Sirens & Muses

“[I]t occurred to her that what she loved most about sex was seeing herself through her lover's gaze. It turned her on beyond belief to imagine herself in Preston's body, desiring herself through him.”
― Antonia Angress, Sirens & Muses

“I think it's easy, when...when you're neglecting your own happiness, to inadvertently neglect the happiness of the people you love. It's sort of like you think you're being selfless or self-sacrificial or something, but really you're just sowing misery everywhere you go.”
― Antonia Angress, Sirens & Muses

“Louisa recalled something mom had told her when she was 15 and going through an obsessive landscape painting phase. “You need to put a figure in there. You need a narrative. When you add in a figure, you invite the viewer into a story about what they’re looking at.”
― Antonia Angress, Sirens & Muses

“Was this what life, real life, actually was, just a maze of forking paths and missed opportunities?”
― Antonia Angress, Sirens & Muses

“Other times she wondered whether she just wanted someone-someone clear-sighted and free of delusion-to look at her, to understand her and render what they saw so that she, in turn, might look and understand too.”
― Antonia Angress, Sirens & Muses

“Your identity, inseparable from your work, was what you’d sell when you went out into the world.”
― Antonia Angress, Sirens & Muses

“I think--" she began. "I think that the people we become infatuated with are the ones who have the qualities we want.”
― Antonia Angress, Sirens & Muses

“It was finally April, and the dogwoods were in bloom, flowerbeds everywhere lurid with color.”
― Antonia Angress, Sirens & Muses