Leonora Carrington quotes
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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.”
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“People under seventy and over seven are very unreliable if they are not cats.”
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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.”
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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.”
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“Art is a magic which makes the hours melt away and even days dissolve into seconds”
-- Leonora CarringtonSource : Leonora Carrington (1988). “The seventh horse, and other tales”, Plume
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“I've always had access to other worlds. We all do because we dream.”
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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.”
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“Painting is my vehicle of transit. I don't always know where I am going or what it means.”
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“I warn you, I refuse to be an object.”
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“Sentimentality is a form of fatigue.”
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“There are things that are not sayable. That’s why we have art.”
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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 CarringtonSource : Leonora Carrington, Mexican Museum (1991). “Leonora Carrington--the Mexican Years, 1943-1985”, Mexican Museum/San Francisco
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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 CarringtonSource : " 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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“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.”
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“One has to be careful what one takes when one goes away forever.”
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“Reason must know the heart's reasons and every other reason”
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“The task of the right eye is to peer into the telescope, while the left eye peers into the microscope.”
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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
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