Shklovsky Quotes

Art makes the familiar strange so that it can be freshly perceived. To do this it presents its material in unexpected, even outlandish ways: the shock of the new. ~ Victor Shklovsky

You have to store up books, becoming acquainted with human experience; let them lie around your thoughts, becoming yours - ring upon ring, as a tree grows, let them rise up from the depths like coral islands.

If it gets crowded with all the books and there's nowhere to put your bed, it's better to exchange it for a folding bed ~ Victor Shklovsky

She is the only island for you in your life. From her there is no turning back for you. Only around her does the sea have color. ~ Victor Shklovsky

And art exists that one may recover the sensation of life; it exists to make one feel things, to make the stone stony. ~ Victor Shklovsky

Life is well ordered, like a 'nécessaire', but not all of us can find our places in it. ~ Victor Shklovsky

Misfortune of this kind comes to many. Life is well ordered, like a nécessaire, but not all of us can find our places in it. Life tailors us for a certain person and laughs when we are drawn to someone unable to love us.
All this is simple--like postage stamps. ~ Victor Shklovsky

Art exists that one may recover the sensation of life, it exists to make one feel things, to make the stone stoney . ~ Victor Shklovsky