You don't decide to paint. It's like getting hungry and going to the kitchen to eat. It's a need, not a choice.
Leonora CarringtonRead
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.
Interpretation
The quote explores themes of identity and the ephemeral nature of existence.
In this quote, Leonora Carrington reflects on the transient nature of human existence and identity. The imagery of one fading away symbolizes the fleeting nature of life and memories, suggesting that while one may be physically present, their essence and recognition can diminish over time, prompting deeper reflections on how we connect with others and the impermanence of our experiences.
In practice
This quote can be used to spark a discussion about the nature of reality in a philosophy class.
You don't decide to paint. It's like getting hungry and going to the kitchen to eat. It's a need, not a choice.
I didn't have time to be anybody's muse; I was too busy rebelling against my parents and learning to be an artist.
I didn't have time to be anyone's muse... I was too busy rebelling against my family and learning to be an artist.
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.
No matter how far a person can go the horizon is still way beyond you.
But to ask pity of our body is like discoursing in front of an octopus, for which our words can have no more meaning than the sound of the tides, and with which we should be appalled to find ourselves condemned to live.
Perhaps a man may commit suicide in self-defense.
We must become so alone, so utterly alone, that we withdraw into our innermost self. It is a way of bitter suffering. But then our solitude is overcome, we are no longer alone, for we find that our innermost self is the spirit, that it is God, the indivisible. And suddenly we find ourselves in the midst of the world, yet undisturbed by its multiplicity, for our innermost soul we know ourselves to be one with all being.
A violet in the youth of primy nature, Forward, not permanent--sweet, not lasting; The perfume and suppliance of a minute; No more.
Man must feel the earth to know himself and recognize his values. God made life simple. It is man who complicates it.
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