List of Leonora Carrington Quotes

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.

Thousands Of People Know My Flannel Knickers, And Though I Know This May Seem Flirtatious, It Is Not. I Am A Saint.

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.

I Never Eat Meat As I Think It Is Wrong To Deprive Animals Of Their Life When They Are So Difficult To Chew Anyway.

Reason Must Know The Heart's Reasons And Every Other Reason

One Has To Be Careful What One Takes When One Goes Away Forever.

Sentimentality Is A Form Of Fatigue.

[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.

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.

The Task Of The Right Eye Is To Peer Into The Telescope, While The Left Eye Peers Into The Microscope.

I Warn You, I Refuse To Be An Object.

Painting Is My Vehicle Of Transit. I Don't Always Know Where I Am Going Or What It Means.