Oddities

Sobre Oddities

London After Midnight é uma banda de rock americana da Califórnia. Formada em 1990 pelo compositor e instrumentista Sean Brennan, London After Midnight tem seguidores em todo o mundo, com uma grande base de fãs na subcultura gótica. No entanto, em entrevistas Brennan evitou o uso desse rótulo e outros para descrever sua música, chamando-o de "artisticamente limitante".

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Notable quotes

“There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.”
— Francis Bacon, in "Of Beauty" in Essays (1625).
“The universe is not only stranger than we imagine, it's stranger than we can imagine.”
— Arthur C. Clarke paraphrasing J.B.S. Haldane
“The weight of evidence for an extraordinary claim must be proportioned to its strangeness.”
— Laplace, Théorie analytique des probabilités, (1812)
“But Lord! to see the absurd nature of Englishmen, that cannot forbear laughing and jeering at everything that looks strange.”
— Samuel Pepys, Diary (27 November 1662).
“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.”
— Jackson Pollock interviewed by William Wright, Summer 1950; as quoted in Abstract Expressionism : Creators and Critics (1990) edited by Clifford Ross, p. 142.
“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.”
— Jackson Pollock, as quoted in Jackson Pollock (1967) by Francis V. O'Connor, p. 79.

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