Strangeness

"There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion."

"The universe is not only stranger than we imagine, it's stranger than we can imagine."

"The weight of evidence for an extraordinary claim must be proportioned to its strangeness."

"The Joker: What doesn't kill you makes you stranger."

"It is the addition of strangeness to beauty that constitutes the romantic character in art."

"But Lord! to see the absurd nature of Englishmen, that cannot forbear laughing and jeering at everything that looks strange."

"I happen to find ways that are different from the usual techniques, which seems a little strange at the moment, but I don’t think there’s anything very different about it. I paint on the floor and this isn’t unusual – the Orientals did that."

"Each age finds its own technique … I mean, the strangeness will wear off and I think we will discover the deeper meanings in modern art."

"By accident most strange, bountiful Fortune — Now my dear lady — hath mine enemies Brought to this shore; and by my prescience I find my zenith doth depend upon A most auspicious star, whose influence If now I court not, but omit, my fortunes Will ever after droop."

"Full fathom five thy father lies; Of his bones are coral made; Those are pearls that were his eyes; Nothing of him that doth fade, But doth suffer a sea-change Into something rich and strange."

"There he goes. One of God's own prototypes. Some kind of high powered mutant never even considered for mass production. Too weird to live, and too rare to die."