Art Quote by Gregory Crewdson

“Anything I run across can light up the circuitry of my brain, and set me on an adventure. To research strains of yeast; hiccup…

— Ander Monson

And now I understand something so frightening &wonderful- how the mind clings to the road it knows, rushing through crossroads, sticking like lint to…

— Mary Oliver

The novel is like a melancholy form. It's about some kind of disillusionment with the way things are versus the idea of how they…

— Elif Batuman

“intuit higher meanings in these mysterious happenings.”

— Sarah Ban Breathnach

“Philosophy, beginning in wonder, as Plato and Aristotle said, is able to fancy everything different from what it is. It sees the familiar as…

— William James

Writing fiction has developed in me an abiding respect for the unknown in a human lifetime and a sense of where to look for…

— Eudora Welty

“The finest SF comes to grips with life's mysteries, with our resentments against our own natures and our limited societies. It does so by…

— George Zebrowski

Tension is an interesting quality - and architecture must have it. There should be elements of the inexplicable, the mysterious, and the poetic in…

— Annabelle Selldorf

“A certain atmosphere of breathless and unexplainable dread of outer, unknown forces must be present; and there must be a hint, expressed with a…

— H.P. Lovecraft

That blessed mood in which the burthen of the mystery, in which the heavy and the weary weight of all this unintelligible world is…

— William Wordsworth

Over the years, confusing fragments, lost corners of stories, have a clearer meaning when seen in a new light, a different place.

— Michael Ondaatje

Something mysterious happens to a curious, fully engaged mind - and it happens as often as not, subconsciously. Strange little sparks are set off,…

— Tom Peters