Quotes About Leonora

#1. Oh dear, is that a skunk?" Leonora asked.
"No," Alessandro gasped in horror. "No the smelly cat!"
"I've told you, Alessandro darling, they aren't cats."
"They look like cats. Like the big fluffy cat she's been stepped on and flattened to a big fluffy pancake cat," Alessandro argued.

Lynsay Sands

#2. To my daughter Leonora without whose never-failing sympathy and encouragement this book would have been finished in half the time.

P.G. Wodehouse

#3. Angela Carter, Leonora Carrington, even nonsurrealists like Kafka and Nabokov - writers like these, who create paths between the firmly grounded and flights of fantasy, are my personal North Star.

Jeff VanderMeer

#4. Love is not something you can impute to another." ~Leonora

Stephanie Laurens

#5. You've heard of people living in a fool's paradise? Well, Leonora has a duplex there.

George S. Kaufman

#6. Leonora Penderton feared neither man, beast, nor the devil; God she had never known.

Carson McCullers

#7. 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

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

Leonora Carrington

#9. 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

#10. His character is like an emerald - multifaceted and enhanced by inclusions.

Melika Dannese Lux

#11. A Brotherhood with the grim knowledge of what is better for other people & the iron determination to better them whether they like it or not.

Leonora Carrington

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

Leonora Carrington

#13. I unscrewed my own scrap of paper and read out: "Help! I am prisoner in the tower.

Leonora Carrington

#14. I am never lonely, Galahad. Or rather I never suffer from loneliness. I suffer much from the idea that my loneliness might be taken away from me by a lot of mercilessly well-meaning people.

Leonora Carrington

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

Leonora Carrington

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

Leonora Carrington

#17. Do not fear those who bear you ill will, they soon shall fall in shame, read Georgina, cackling with mirth.

Leonora Carrington

#18. Love has a hundred gentle ends.

Leonora Speyer

#19. She rounded on me with such ferocity that for a moment I didn't recognize her. A flash of fangs, a dark gleam in her blacker-than-night eyes. It was the most vampiric I'd ever seen her.

Melika Dannese Lux

#20. There is nobody that can make you happy, you must take care of this matter yourself.

Leonora Carrington

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

Leonora Carrington

#22. I think she was mistaken when she said I was torturing myself. I think that she interpreted me fragmentarily, which is worse than not to interpret at all.

Leonora Carrington

#23. 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

#24. 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

#25. 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.

Leonora Carrington

#26. ... The Antichrists are antichristing each other with antichristly ferocity so I must go and make peace.

Leonora Carrington

#27. I believe in anthologies, although I know they offer only a glimpse.

Leonora Speyer

#28. 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

#29. I warn you, I refuse to be an object.

Leonora Carrington

#30. To be exact has naught to do with pedantry or dogma.

Leonora Speyer

#31. Do you believe, she went on, that the past dies?
Yes, said Margaret. Yes, if the present cuts its throat.

Leonora Carrington

#32. Do not give up hope entirely in spite of the horror of your situation. I am mobilising all my mental capacities to obtain your unconditional freedom.

Leonora Carrington

#33. This is a love letter to a nightmare.

Leonora Carrington

#34. Anyway, Art [making] is a magic which makes the hours melt away and even days dissolve into seconds, isn't that so, dear lady?

Leonora Carrington

#35. [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

#36. The King sat down and I noticed that a brood of small transparent roots grew from the soles of his feet. 'Yes, I am also errant. My roots can find no soil and this is why they are visible.

Leonora Carrington

#37. Virginia returned home, followed by the cats. There, in the kitchen, she gave birth to seven little boars. Out of sentiment she kept the one most like Igname, and boiled the others for herself and the cats, as a funeral feast.

Leonora Carrington

#38. With shrieks of adoration it flung itself on human breasts, 'to crush you, to suck your life away. I cannot drag my own weight over the crust of the earth so you must carry me on your back so that in time you will be crippled with my weight.' These words are in every heart in the mating season.

Leonora Carrington

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

Leonora Carrington

#40. Darling stop being philosophical it doesn't suit you, it makes your nose red.

Leonora Carrington

#41. 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

#42. Death stalked toward us on padded feet.
And it was not alone.

Melika Dannese Lux

#43. The trees are God's great alphabet:
With them
He writes in shining green
Across the world
His thoughts serene.

Leonora Speyer

#44. Sentimentality is a form of fatigue.

Leonora Carrington

#45. I am so sad, Eleanor, so sad that my body has become transparent, I've shed so many tears. Is it possible to dissolve into water without leaving a trace?

Leonora Carrington

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

Leonora Carrington

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

Leonora Carrington