The Improbability of Love Quotes

“All that matters is that artists keep reminding mortals about what really matters: the wonder, the glory, the madness, the importance and the improbability of love.”
― Hannah Mary Rothschild, The Improbability of Love

“...the value of a work of art is set by desire: who wants to own it and how badly”
― Hannah Mary Rothschild, The Improbability of Love

“Art only survives by striking a chord in someone’s heart and offering solace and reassurance.”
― Hannah Mary Rothschild, The Improbability of Love

“There is nothing so desirable as the unobtainable.”
― Hannah Mary Rothschild, The Improbability of Love

“I was painted to celebrate the wild cascades of love, the rollicking, bucking, breaking and transformative passion that inevitably gave way to miserable, constricting, overbearing disappointment.”
― Hannah Rothschild, The Improbability of Love

“Annie believed taste and aromas had the power to transport people from the present to other places. Sometimes this was a journey to a different mood, but it was also a form of time travel. For Annie, the subtlest whiff of freshly cut grass, or the essence of pine needles, a freshly risen cheese soufflé, the scent of a dog rose or a rain shower on autumn leaves, conjured up past summers.”
― Hannah Mary Rothschild, The Improbability of Love

“Nothing drives men crazier than the inability to possess.”
― Hannah Mary Rothschild, The Improbability of Love

“Annie had stopped listening to music. It was too evocative and she found it easier not to live with unexpected emotional stimulants.”
― Hannah Mary Rothschild, The Improbability of Love

“Beauty and desire to possess have driven men mad for centuries.”
― Hannah Rothschild, The Improbability of Love

“...ignorance is a curse lying in wait for the younger generation, for those who forgot to ask.”
― Hannah Mary Rothschild, The Improbability of Love

“Annie believed taste and aromas had the power to transport people from the present to other places. Sometimes this was a journey to a different mood, but it was also a form of time travel.”
― Hannah Mary Rothschild, The Improbability of Love

“Food, she decided, was like performance rather than fine art: its power was in its transience and immediacy.”
― Hannah Mary Rothschild, The Improbability of Love

“That was the glorious thing about art: its value was entirely subjective.”
― Hannah Mary Rothschild, The Improbability of Love

“All that matters is that artists keep reminding mortals about what really matters: the wonder, the glory, the madness, the importance and the improbability of love.”
― Hannah Mary Rothschild, The Improbability of Love

“love is as much an art as painting or living; it requires practice, finesse, determination, humility, energy and delicacy.”
― Hannah Mary Rothschild, The Improbability of Love

“This is the great tragedy of love—even if you are lucky enough to stumble on it, it never lasts. Every young person believes that their case will be different; fools, damn fools.”
― Hannah Mary Rothschild, The Improbability of Love

“his refusal to be seduced by new ideas or faraway places, but walking through the tiny twisting streets of New Delhi, Annie understood that Desmond’s world was limited by fear. He couldn’t bear to step out of the known, the familiar. In Europe he could understand the rudiments of language, the coordinates of the culture, but elsewhere he was flummoxed. The same went, she began to understand, for his absolute reliance on order and routine.”
― Hannah Mary Rothschild, The Improbability of Love

“Only now that he had great swathes of time could he begin to have hobbies. This was why art was such an incalculable luxury: it sent out a message saying, "I have time to subcontract all the menial, dull chores out to others; I waste hours in idle contemplation of a piece of cloth covered in spots; I am an art lover; I am time-rich. I can mooch about in a sea of pickled sharks.”
― Hannah Mary Rothschild, The Improbability of Love

“The one area that Winkleman avoided was dealing in contemporary art, which Memling described as "shooting poisonous snakes with a water pistol.”
― Hannah Mary Rothschild, The Improbability of Love

“Art follows power. Just as soldiers hang medals from their uniforms, the rich hang paintings on their walls.”
― Hannah Mary Rothschild, The Improbability of Love

“He was, simultaneously, the impassioned happy man lying at the feet of his beloved and also the morose clown standing in the background of the picture. Being in love pitched him, moment by moment, between waves of ecstasy and misery. Like every other person, he believed his predicament was unique.”
― Hannah Mary Rothschild, The Improbability of Love

“I am called, and I personify, the Improbability of Love. I was painted to celebrate the wild cascades of amour, the rollicking, bucking, breaking and transformative passion that inevitably gives way to miserable, constricting, overbearing disappointment. At first my master imbued every tiny brushstroke with unbound ardour, untrammelled desire and unquenchable lust. During the painting of the work he had to accept that his feelings were a mirage, a chimera in his mind. This is the great tragedy of love - even if you are lucky enough to stumble on it, it never lasts.”
― Hannah Rothschild, The Improbability of Love

“el valor de una obra de arte lo establece el deseo, quién quiere comprarla y hasta qué punto lo desea.”
― Hannah Mary Rothschild, La improbabilidad del amor

“El amor no consiste solo en sentimientos, sino en demostrar que esos sentimientos son ciertos.”
― Hannah Rothschild, La improbabilidad del amor

“The difference between a good and a great work of art was down to an almost indistinguishable series of largely unidentifiable factors: the élan of a brushstroke; the juxtaposition of colours; the collisions in a composition and an accidental stroke or two. Like a rolling stone gathering moss, a painting gathered history, comment and appreciation, all adding to its value.”
― Hannah Mary Rothschild, The Improbability of Love

“gallons of wine, cinnamon,”
― Hannah Rothschild, The Improbability of Love

“Nothing drives men crazier than the inability to possess. I”
― Hannah Mary Rothschild, The Improbability of Love

“Beauty and desire to possess have driven men mad for centuries. Add a hundred and twenty billion dollars annually to that equation and you have serious trouble.”
― Hannah Rothschild, The Improbability of Love

“Food for her was as much about colour, smell and presentation as taste: the experience of eating should start in the eye and the nose and then erupt in the imagination. Chewing and tasting were the climax to a sensual experience. On”
― Hannah Mary Rothschild, The Improbability of Love

“akimbo,”
― Hannah Mary Rothschild, The Improbability of Love