Too often we tend to reduce what is strange to what is…

So new to him," she muttered, "so old to me; so strange to him, so familiar to me; so melancholy to both of us!...

— Charles Dickens

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

Thoughts rearrange, familiar now strange.

— Holly Golightly

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

I don't look to play people that are familiar. I look to play people that are different, challenge, unknown, foreign, and therefore scary.

— Sarah Jessica Parker

By the time they were pulling into the parking lot of the A&P, the mood was fading, the moment gone. Amy could feel it…

— Elizabeth Strout

Any creative process is about being in a territory which isn't secure, isn't necessarily familiar, and isn't convenient in any sort of way. And…

— Susanne Bier

This kind of horror has become all too familiar to us. As parents, Cindy and I offer our prayers to the memory of the…

— John McCain

Meanwhile, the trees were just as green as before; the birds sang and the sun shone as clearly now as ever. The familiar surroundings…

— Thomas Hardy

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

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