143 Quotes About Surreal

Without imagination, things were only as they appeared - and that was blindness. Things were more than they appeared, so much more. When he considered an oak tree, it was not just a tree. To someone small, like an ant, it was a whole landscape of rugged barky cliffs and big green leaf-plains that quaked when the sky was restless, a place of many strange creatures where fearsome winged beasts could pluck and devour someone in a blink.

To his shock, as Saarang turned the first page, the words slowly transformed into small cylinders, except for one-letter words, which preferred being spheres, and started rolling toward the vertical edges of the book.

A lost bird appeared in the court and was half an hour jumping around between the spikenard. It sang a progressive note, rising an octave at a time, until it became so acute that it was necessary to imagine it.

Fantasmagoria by Stewart StaffordDreams are the exploration,Of unlimited imagination,In minds so freely open,The chooser becomes chosen,To dream labour's leisure,Overflowing with hidden treasure,And seeing what we feel,The imagined becomes real.© Stewart Stafford, 2020. All rights reserved.

Surreal reality. Real surreality. Imagination Opium. Reality Morphium.

This story has never happened but it is real. Once upon a time, in a surreal paradigm.

I love to feel the temperature drop and the wind increase just before a thunderstorm. Then I climb in bed with the thunder.

A picture is worth a thousand words, but the way I paint I'm going to need to contact an editor. Even if I were to abstractly paint the phrase "I love you," it would be the visual equivalent of Joyce's Ulysses.-James Lee Schmidt and Jarod Kintz

It seems to me that reality itself has a screw loose somewhere. That's why I try to keep at least myself in line as much as possible.