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Strangeness is a necessary ingredient in beauty.
Strangeness is an ingredient necessary in beauty.
It is a mistake to confound strangeness with mystery.
Life brings with it strangeness and surprises and upsets
Strangeness is the indispensable condiment of all beauty.
We love women in proportion to their degree of strangeness to us.
It is the business of the artist to uncover the strangeness of truth
Everything you have ever heard about the strangeness of Hollywood is true!
It's strange how time can make a place shrink, make its strangeness ordinary.
There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.
...morbidly, attracted him to strangeness, to recklessnesss, even unhappiness.
Photography is the recording of strangeness and beauty with beguiling precision.
Vance has a genius in evoking the beauty of strangeness, the strangeness of beauty.
I'm most interested in finding the strangeness and irony in reality. That's my forte.
I'd like to recover some of the strangeness and wonder of consideration of the future.
It is the addition of strangeness to beauty that constitutes the romantic character in art.
There were a lot of things in life to be afraid of, but strangeness ought not be among them.
The strangeness will wear off and I think we will discover the deeper meanings in modern art.
When I was young I read 'L'Etranger' by Camus, and it made me aware of the strangeness of life.
In Los Angeles, I feel connected to a hubbub of strangeness. And I enjoy that; I like strangeness.
To pretend you don't feel a certain strangeness after living in England for 40 years is a fallacy.
The best interviews like the best biographies should sing the strangeness and variety of the human race.
(What makes his world so hard to see clearly is not its strangeness but its usualness).Familiarity can blind you too.
As a kid, I loved Godot because of the poetry and the humor and the strangeness, but then as you get older, its much more resonant.
Nothing, perhaps, is strange, once you have accepted life itself, the great strange business which includes all lesser strangeness.
As a kid, I loved 'Godot' because of the poetry and the humor and the strangeness, but then as you get older, it's much more resonant.
That was such a wonderful time, even in its strangeness and sadness-and life isn't the same now. It's wonderful, but it isn't the same.
My work reflects a relationship to the built world that shifts between control and randomness, strangeness and beauty, comfort and fear.
Dating is just awkward moments and one person wants more than the other. It's just that constant strangeness. I think it's a very real thing.
I haven't been recognized out in public or anything. The strangeness of celebrity has been relegated to Twitter, which is kind of manageable.
I've always been excited by the strangeness of ballet, but I can't bear it when people just come forward and do a turn in the air for no reason.
I try not to put messages in my songs. My only message is man's communication with his fellow man. I want to narrow the gap of strangeness and alienation.
I like what I hear as a resulting combination of these two strands... something of a combination of familiarity and, for lack of a better word, strangeness.
I feel compelled to make art that on one hand reflects and sometimes almost creates like a sense of comfort when confronted with the strangeness of the world.
We also maintain - again with perfect truth - that mystery is more than half of beauty, the element of strangeness that stirs the senses through the imagination.
You hear ten seconds of a song, and you know it's OutKast. There's a strangeness about it because it's catchy, but it's not just pop for the sake of pop. They're pushing the envelope.
Wonderful characters rotate around and through bookshops on a daily basis, competing with and possibly even triumphing over fiction when it comes to entertainment, strangeness and inspiration.
Whatever brief delights it provides, mere strangeness in poetry and prose eventually leaves us cold, especially when we suspect the writer is stretching for effect to avoid the actual life before his eyes.
I think that a good deal of poetry and art gives us some sense of access to another's voice, perception, texture of thought, imagination. Sometimes it gives us better access to the strangeness in ourselves.
I suppose that few people ever forget the first sight of a palm-tree of any species. I vividly remember seeing one for the first time at Malaga, but the coco-palm groves of the Pacific have a strangeness and witchery of their own.
To mourn is to wonder at the strangeness that grief is not written all over your face in bruised hieroglyphics. And it's also to feel, quite powerfully, that you're not allowed to descend into the deepest fathom of your grief - that to do so would be taboo somehow.
One question about a joke is, how well is the strangeness of the situation resolved? At 'The New Yorker', we retain a lot of incongruity, tapping the playful part of the mind - Monty Python-type stuff. We also try to use humor as a vehicle for communicating ideas. Not editorial comment, but observation.
The world is a crazy, beautiful, ugly complicated place, and it keeps moving on from crisis to strangeness to beauty to weirdness to tragedy. The caravan keeps moving on, and the job of the longform writer or filmmaker or radio broadcaster is to stop - is to pause - and when the caravan goes away, that's when this stuff comes.
I was having a conversation with my father and he was talking about this thing - strangeness and charm. It's actually the name of the two smallest particles that there are when you split the atom, so I wrote a song around it. I even managed to fit the word 'hydrogen' in there. Isn't that a nice thing for scientists to call them though?
As I read 'The Infinities', with its magical, playful richness, its sensuous delight in the power of language to convey the strangeness and beauty of being human, I wondered if J. M. Coetzee, with his bleak, pared-down, elemental view of the world, had ever read a Banville and, if he had, whether he had envied him his astonishing powers.