Leonora Carrington

“Reason must know the limitations of reason.”

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

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

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

“Houses are really bodies. We connect ourselves with walls, roofs, and objects just as we hang on to our own arms and legs.”

“You may not believe in magic but something very strange is happening at this very moment.”

“The world that I paint I do not even know if it is real or not. It is a world that I have invented for myself.”

“I warn you, I'm a witch.”

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

“Vegetables are very sensible. You can tell by their colors.”

“Fear is the most childish and hateful of all emotions.”

“I am an old woman. I have the right to be eccentric.”

“Myths are very important and we are all living in a myth.”

“The only thing I know is that I don't know anything, and that makes me a painter.”