Extraordinary Quote by Constantine Manos

The idea of the extraordinary happening in the context of the ordinary is what's fascinating to me

— Chris Van Allsburg

Find a perspective that transforms the ordinary into the extraordinary.

— Dewitt Jones

Here's the deal: the extraordinary becomes ordinary really quickly. One minute, everything is new and amazing, the next it's expected.

— Forrest Griffin

“The surreal is as integral a part of our lives as the 'real,' although one might argue that, since the unconscious underlies consciousness, and…

— Joyce Carol Oates

“Sometimes, when there’s been an accident and reality is too sudden and strange to comprehend, the surreal will take over. Action slows to a…

— Donna Tartt

... a mysterious intersection of chance and attention that goes well beyond the existential surrealism of the 'decisive moment'.

— Lee Friedlander

“A stubborn refusal of the conditions of 20th Century 'reality', surrealism has denied intransigently and consistently that modern man can live without a sense…

— Michael Richardson

As soon as it is seen, the extraordinary starts becoming ordinary!

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

This strange business of what it is to be a writer is this increasingly insane world in which we live, in which surrealism, it…

— Salman Rushdie

Ordinary life does not interest me. I seek only the high moments. I am in accord with the surrealists, searching for the marvelous.

— Anais Nin

You enter the extraordinary by way of the ordinary

— Frederick Buechner

“Most people are realist. I consider myself a surrealist. Creativy drives past the point of what is real to a wonderland of infinite possibilities.”

— Andrinesha Dickson