surrealist owls

owl sketch by Remedios Varo

""Some kinds of animals burrow in the ground; others do not.

Some animals are nocturnal, as the owl and the bat; others use the hours of daylight"

Aristotle

owl by Leonor Fini

"This tower, patched unevenly with black ivy, arose like a mutilated finger from among the fists of knuckled masonry and pointed blasphemously at heaven. At night the owls made of it an echoing throat; by day it stood voiceless and cast its long shadow"
Mervyn Peake, from Titus Groan

by Leonora Carrington

"The owl flies by night, a dark shadow passing through the darkness; he hoots his sinister, quivering hoot, as though he delights in the intoxicating black immensity of space" 

Guy de Maupassant