Common Quote by Wayne Thiebaud

Ordinary things have always seemed numinous to me

— Marilynne Robinson

All objects lose by too familiar a view.

— John Dryden

An object is frequently not seen, from not knowing how to see it, rather than from any defect of the organ of vision.

— Charles Babbage

We are not interested in the unusual, but in the usual seen unusually.

— Beaumont Newhall

It's a new normal and I really do think that global weirding is the best way to describe what we're seeing.

— Katharine Hayhoe

Certain things, if not seen as lovely or detestable, are not being correctly seen at all.

— C. S. Lewis

“Before familiarity can turn into awareness the familiar must be stripped of its inconspicuousness; we must give up assuming that the object in question…

— Bertold Brecht

Every day events and what we would commonly classify as normal, is often extraordinary if you just take a closer look.

— Senoraroy

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

— Rene Magritte

Your Englishman, confronted by something abnormal will always pretend that it isn't there. If, however, you force him to look into it, he'll at…

— James Agate

Live people ignore the strange and unusual. I myself, am strange and unusual.

— Anonymous

The appearances of natural objects are in themselves meaningless; the essential thing is feeling - in itself and completely independent of the context in…

— Kazimir Malevich