Thoughts rearrange, familiar now strange.

It's about finding meaning through light. I'm always interested in tensions. A primary one is the collision between the familiar and the strange.

— Gregory Crewdson

“Art makes the familiar strange so that it can be freshly perceived. To do this it presents its material in unexpected, even outlandish ways:…

— Viktor Shklovsky

“Magda smiled. “I’m familiar with strange objects left in corners. My husband was a maker, though I rarely heard that name applied to him.”

— Terry Goodkind

Too often we tend to reduce what is strange to what is familiar. I intend to restore the familiar to the strange.

— Rene Magritte

The flesh of past lovers looks both familiar and strange.

— Mason Cooley

“Early in this century a group of passionate artists in Russia claimed that the essence of art was to make the familiar seem strange.…

— Sueellen Campbell

The night is full of stories. They float up like miasmas, as though the dead leave their dreams in the earth where you bury…

— Tim Winton

What seems natural to us is probably just something familiar in a long tradition that has forgotten the unfamiliar source from which it arose.…

— Martin Heidegger

Nowhere in space will we rest our eyes upon the familiar shapes of trees and plants, or any of the animals that share our…

— Arthur C. Clarke

In creating the strange milieu in which your story takes place, you must first understand as well as you possibly can the familiar milieu…

— Orson Scott Card

Successfully functioning in a society with diverse values, traditions and lifestyles requires us to have a relationship to our own reactions rather than be…

— Robert Kegan

There was another reason [she] took her books whenever they went away. They were her home when she was somewhere strange. They were familiar…

— Cornelia Funke

Thoughts are strange creatures. They lead you from one thing to another. Sometimes you don’t know how you got from one to the next.

— Franny Billingsley

Photography's potential as a great image-maker and communicator is really no different from the same potential in the best poetry where familiar, everyday words,…

— Paul Caponigro

It's a very familiar type of place where people either go to their house on the lake or they get together in different places.…

— Steve Carell