“The house begins to be a home. The unfamiliar places are beginning to fold the familiar objects into their keeping and to cozy them down. Objects that swore at each other when the movers heaved them into the new rooms have subsided into corners and sit to lick their feet and wash their faces like cats accepting a new home.” HomeFacesHouseRoomsAcceptingFeetObjectsCatCornersFamiliarFoldsUnfamiliarCozyNew HomeInanimate Objects Author:Emily Carr
“The crowd is the veil through which the familiar city beckons to the flâneur as phantasmagoria-now a landscape, now a room.” RoomsCitiesCrowdsFamiliarLandscapeVeils Book:Selected Writings: 1935-1938 Source: Selected Writings: 1935-1938
“If there is any reason to single out artists as being more necessary to our lives than any others, it is because they provide us with light that cannot be extinguished. They go into dark rooms and poke at their souls until the contours of our own are familiar to us.” IfsSoulReasonLightArtistDarkRoomsOur LivesFamiliarPokeDark Room Author:Phyllis Grissim-Theroux
“One recurring dream, many others have also: you go into a familiar house, discover a door or hallway, and find the house continues into hidden rooms. Sometimes a whole second house is there, a larger and unknown extension of the familiar dwelling.” SometimesWholeDreamHouseRoomsDoorsFamiliarExtensionsDwellingHallwaysRecurringRecurring Dreams Author:Jane Hirshfield
“There is something disorderly about the death of a young person. In a universe disturbed by so much over which we have no control, an untimely tragedy rattles the teeth of our already shaken confidence. We want to domesticate death, fight it on our own turf, in familiar rooms with shades drawn evenly, top sheets turned back, and a circle of hushed voices closing in.” WantPersonsYoungDeathFightingUniverseVoiceRoomsTragedyCirclesTeethFamiliarShadeSheetsClosingDisturbedTurf Book:A Leak in the Heart: Tales from a Woman's Life Source: A Leak in the Heart: Tales from a Woman's Life
“You get a kind of surreal feeling and also it allows you to focus on the things we want you to focus on in a new way - the stuff that's very small and mundane that happens in a person's life when they're in a hotel room. There's more interest because you're seeing a puppet do things that you're very familiar with that you might not notice if it was a human doing it.” IfsWayWantHumansKindPersonsFeelingsMightHappensStuffInterestRoomsFocusSeeingFamiliarHotelNew WaysSurrealMundanePuppetsHotel Rooms Author:Charlie Kaufman