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

- Leonora Carrington

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

I warn you, I refuse to be an object.

- Leonora Carrington

[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 noth…

- Leonora Carrington

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 rho…

- Leonora Carrington

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

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

- Leonora Carrington

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

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

- Leonora Carrington