Leonora Carrington famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

We went down into the silent garden. Dawn is the time when nothing breathes, the hour of silence. Everything is transfixed, only the light moves.
-- Leonora Carrington

#Moving #Garden #Light
People under seventy and over seven are very unreliable if they are not cats.
-- Leonora Carrington

#Cat #People #Seven
Military people never seem to apologize for killing each other yet novelists feel ashamed for writing some nice inert paper book that is not certain to be read by anybody.
-- Leonora Carrington

#Nice #Military #Book
I didn't have time to be anyone's muse... I was too busy rebelling against my family and learning to be an artist.
-- Leonora Carrington

#Artist #Busy #Muse
Art is a magic which makes the hours melt away and even days dissolve into seconds
-- Leonora Carrington

#Art #Magic #Hours
I've always had access to other worlds. We all do because we dream.
-- Leonora Carrington

#Dream #Other Worlds #World
[At age 92:] There are places I'd like to return to. But not as I was then but as I am now. 'Cause I'm trying to understand. And I've understood nothing.
-- Leonora Carrington

#Understanding #Age #Trying
Painting is my vehicle of transit. I don't always know where I am going or what it means.
-- Leonora Carrington

#Mean #Painting #Vehicle
I warn you, I refuse to be an object.
-- Leonora Carrington

#Refuse
Sentimentality is a form of fatigue.
-- Leonora Carrington

#Form #Fatigue #Sentimentality
There are things that are not sayable. Thatâ€™s why we have art.
-- Leonora Carrington

#Art
I often feel I am being burned at the stake just because I have always refused to give up that wonderful strange power I have inside me that becomes manifested when I am in harmonious communication with some other inspired being.
-- Leonora Carrington

#Giving Up #Communication #Strange
I never eat meat as I think it is wrong to deprive animals of their life when they are so difficult to chew anyway
-- Leonora Carrington

#Animal #Thinking #Meat
Wouldn't it be wonderful if I won a helicopter in a crossword puzzle competition? There is not much hope though I am afraid, as they never give such practical prizes.
-- Leonora Carrington

#Giving #Competition #Wonderful
One has to be careful what one takes when one goes away forever.
-- Leonora Carrington

#Forever #Be Careful #Careful
Reason must know the heart's reasons and every other reason
-- Leonora Carrington

#Heart #Reason
The task of the right eye is to peer into the telescope, while the left eye peers into the microscope.
-- Leonora Carrington

#Eye #Vision #Tasks
You may not believe in magic but something very strange is happening at this very moment. Your head has dissolved into thin air and I can see the rhododendrons through your stomach. It's not that you are dead or anything dramatic like that, it is simply that you are fading away and I can't even remember your name.
-- Leonora Carrington

#Believe #Names #Air

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