“The essential fault of surrealism is that it invents without discovering. To make a clam play an accordion is to invent not to discover. The observation of the unconscious, so far as it can be observed, should reveal things of which we have previously been unconscious, not the familiar things of which we have been conscious plus imagination.” ShouldHas BeensPlayImaginationEssentialsConsciousFaultsFamiliarObservationUnconsciousPlusDiscoveringSurrealismAccordionsClamsFamiliar Things Book:Opus Posthumous: Poems, Plays, Prose Source: Opus Posthumous: Poems, Plays, Prose
“If you're familiar enough with my body of work, my voice is a familiar totem, in a sense. I guess I have something characteristic in the way that I sing, although I'm not very personally self-conscious about it, so I don't think about it that much. But when I hear the record I can tell it's me.” IfsThinkingWayI CanSelfEnoughBodyVoiceRecordsConsciousFamiliarCharacteristicsSelf ConsciousTotems Author:Todd Rundgren
“One of the things that I try to be conscious about in crafting a song is the concept of bringing it home. I like to bring it somewhere familiar, someplace that people feel it's resolved, it's settled.” PeopleFeelsTryingHomeSongConsciousConceptsFamiliar Author:Carole King
“The little world of childhood with its familiar surroundings is a model of the greater world. The more intensively the family has stamped its character upon the child, the more it will tend to feel and see its earlier miniature world again in the bigger world of adult life. Naturally this is not a conscious, intellectual process.” WorldFeelsChildrenLittlesCharacterProcessGreaterChildhoodIntellectualModelsConsciousAdultsBiggerFamiliarSurroundingsMemories Dreams ReflectionsMiniatures Author:Carl Jung
“I was never conscious of filming except for when I was location scouting. In a way, that is the most important part of the entire process - and the most private. I'm so used to doing that alone. Unlike every other part, it's just me, alone, on location.It's very hard to describe what I'm looking for - something that feels both familiar and strange at the same time. It's not enough for it just to be strange or mysterious, it also has to feel very ordinary, very familiar, and very nondescript.” WayFeelsImportantHardEnoughUsedProcessStrangeOrdinaryConsciousFamiliarMysteriousLocationMe AloneScouting Author:Gregory Crewdson
“False greatness is unsociable and remote: conscious of its own frailty, it hides, or at least averts its face, and reveals itself only enough to create an illusion and not be recognized as the meanness that it really is. True greatness is free, kind, familiar and popular; it lets itself be touched and handled, it loses nothing by being seen at close quarters; the better one knows it, the more one admires it.” KnowsKindEnoughFacesPoliticalPoliticsLosesGreatnessIllusionConsciousFamiliarAdmireTouchedQuartersMeannessFrailtyAvertTrue Greatness Author:Jean de la Bruyere