Photography is the recording of strangeness and beauty with beguiling precision.
Life brings with it strangeness and surprises and upsets
Having lived long enough to go at least once or twice around the block, I'm noticing that the strangeness is not receding The strangeness seems to be accelerating.
If instead of a figure you put the shadow only of a person, you have found an original starting point, that strangeness of which you have calculated.
The best interviews like the best biographies should sing the strangeness and variety of the human race.
It is a mistake to confound strangeness with mystery.
It is the business of the artist to uncover the strangeness of truth
When we accept Christ we enter into three new relationships: (1) We enter into a new relationship with God. The judge becomes the father; the distant becomes the near; strangeness becomes intimacy and fear becomes love. (2) We enter into a new relationship with our fellow men. Hatred becomes love; selfishness becomes service; and bitterness becomes forgiveness. (3) We enter into a new relationship with ourselves. Weakness becomes strength; frustration becomes achievement; and tension becomes peace.
(What makes his world so hard to see clearly is not its strangeness but its usualness). Familiarity can blind you too.
The world of the terminally ill is the world of neither the living nor the dead. I have watched others since I watched my father, and always with a sense of their strangeness. They sit and speak, and are spoken to, and listen, and even smile, but in spirit they have already moved away from us and there is no way we can enter their shadowy no-man’s-land.
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.
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.
A certain strangeness, something of the blossoming of the aloe, is indeed an element in all true works of art: that they shall excite or surprise us is indispensable.
Develop your legitimate strangeness.
Almost any poem has to be read twice, first for strangeness, second for clarity.
We love women in proportion to their degree of strangeness to us.
Strangeness is a necessary ingredient in beauty.
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.
. . . morbidly, attracted him to strangeness, to recklessnesss, even unhappiness.
Not till we are completely lost, or turned round, do we appreciate the vastness and strangeness of Nature.