Leonora Carrington Quotes

• There are things that are not sayable. That’s why we have art.

  Leonora Carrington

  Art

  The Believer interview, www.believermag.com. November/December 2012.

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• I've always had access to other worlds. We all do because we dream.

  Leonora Carrington

  Dream, Other Worlds, World

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• Art is a magic which makes the hours melt away and even days dissolve into seconds

  Leonora Carrington

  Art, Magic, Hours

  Leonora Carrington (1988). “The seventh horse, and other tales”, Plume

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• People under seventy and over seven are very unreliable if they are not cats.

  Leonora Carrington

  Cat, People, Seven

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• 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

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• Painting is my vehicle of transit. I don't always know where I am going or what it means.

  Leonora Carrington

  Mean, Painting, Vehicle

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• 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

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• 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, Air, Names

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• 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

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• I warn you, I refuse to be an object.

  Leonora Carrington

  Refuse, Objects

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• 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

  Leonora Carrington, Mexican Museum (1991). “Leonora Carrington--the Mexican Years, 1943-1985”, Mexican Museum/San Francisco

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• [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

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• Sentimentality is a form of fatigue.

  Leonora Carrington

  Form, Fatigue, Sentimentality

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• One has to be careful what one takes when one goes away forever.

  Leonora Carrington

  Forever, Be Careful, Careful

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• 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

  " Leonora Carrington once served her guests a hair omelette. My kind of woman" by Sam Leith, www.theguardian.com. June 5, 2011.

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• Reason must know the heart's reasons and every other reason

  Leonora Carrington

  Heart, Reason, Knows

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• 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

  Military, Nice, Book

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• 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

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• Thousands of people know my flannel knickers, and though I know this may seem flirtatious, it is not. I am a saint.

  Leonora Carrington

  People, Saint, Flannels

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