Leonora Carrington quotes:

Sentimentality is a form of fatigue.

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.

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

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.

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.

The task of the right eye is to peer into the telescope, while the left eye peers into the microscope.

The skeleton was as happy as a madman whose straightjacket had been taken off. He felt liberated at being able to walk without flesh. The mosquitoes didn't bite him anymore. He didn't have to have his hair cut. He was neither hungry nor thirsty, hot nor cold. He was far from the lizard of love.

[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.

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

I didn't have time to be anyone's muse... I was too busy rebelling against my family and learning to be an artist.

I never eat meat as I think it is wrong to deprive animals of their life when they are so difficult to chew anyway

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.

I warn you, I refuse to be an object.

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

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

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

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

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

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.