Quotes by Leonora Carrington - Page 1

Sentimentality is a form of fatigue.
Leonora Carrington / Artist
Fatigue
Form
Sentimentality
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I warn you, I refuse to be an object.
Leonora Carrington / Artist
Objects
Refuse
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I suppose what I believe in is peaceful anarchy.
Leonora Carrington / Artist
Anarchy
Peaceful
Believe I Believe I Believe In
Suppose
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I am as mysterious to myself as I am mysterious to others.
Leonora Carrington / Artist
Mysterious
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Reason must know the heart's reasons and every other reason
Leonora Carrington / Artist
Heart
Knows
Reason
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There are things that are not sayable. That’s why we have art.
Leonora Carrington / Artist
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One has to be careful what one takes when one goes away forever.
Leonora Carrington / Artist
Be Careful
Careful
Forever
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I've always had access to other worlds. We all do because we dream.
Leonora Carrington / Artist
Dream
Other Worlds
World
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What would anyone want to write about me for? I'm just an old lady.
Leonora Carrington / Artist
Old Lady
Lady
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People under seventy and over seven are very unreliable if they are not cats.
Leonora Carrington / Artist
Cat
People
Seven
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Art is a magic which makes the hours melt away and even days dissolve into seconds
Leonora Carrington / Artist
Art
Hours
Magic
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Everyone's had an interesting life. Unless they're interested in business or something.
Leonora Carrington / Artist
Interesting Life
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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 / Artist
Mean
Painting
Vehicle
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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 / Artist
Eye
Tasks
Vision
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You don't decide to paint. It's like getting hungry and going to the kitchen to eat. It's a need, not a choice.
Leonora Carrington / Artist
Hungry
Paint
Choice
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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
Artist
Busy
Muse
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I didn't have time to be anybody's muse; I was too busy rebelling against my parents and learning to be an artist.
Leonora Carrington / Artist
Busy
Muse
Rebelling
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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 / Artist
Animal
Meat
Thinking
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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 / Artist
Flannels
People
Saint
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I never thought of myself as a Surrealist. I didn't think of myself as anything. I try not to. We all have these egos.
Leonora Carrington / Artist
Surrealist
Myself Anything Never
Egos
Myself Never Anything
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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 / Artist
Garden
Light
Moving
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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 / Artist
Age
Trying
Understanding
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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 / Artist
Competition
Giving
Wonderful
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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 / Artist
Book
Military
Nice
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In the political confusion and the torrid heat, I convinced myself that Madrid was the world's stomach and that I had been chosen for the task of restoring this digestive organ to health.
Leonora Carrington / Artist
Chosen
Confusion
Convinced
Heat
Madrid
Restoring
Stomach
Digestive
Organ
Task
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I hated being in a convent. It's another form of power. Manipulation. Because who can say - one God for the whole universe? I think there must be millions of gods! And they're not all of them very nice.
Leonora Carrington / Artist
Hated
Manipulation
Millions
Nice
Universe
Convent
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I have always thought - and a lot of people won't agree with this - that we're incredibly driven by fear, basically. Aren't we? It's awful to be frightened. I think it's a very strong, very powerful thing, fear.
Leonora Carrington / Artist
Driven
Frightened
Fear Always People
Fear People Always
Powerful Thing
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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 / Artist
Communication
Giving Up
Strange
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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 / Artist
Air
Believe
Names
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