Leonora Carrington Quotes

“If you are in a condition of inferiority, I think it affects you very much creatively. You have incredible visions but you might be too bashful to show them. Your creativity becomes inhibited. I've always found women as individuals as stupid or as intelligent as men. I've never had any reason to find them otherwise.”
― Leonora Carrington, Leonora Carrington: Surrealism, Alchemy and Art

“We feel confident that the general public are now adequately informed on the simple but arduous projection of the Artist from the humid warmth of genealogical gestation to the dizzy freezing point of oil paint on canvas in well established Morphology going from one vicissitude to numberless combinations of zoological colour gnodes to ambivalent orquestration of strangely timed psyclograms deftly intershot with sparrowhawks pressed into tablets of concentrated malice only to explode here and there with the soundless peversity of zero sirns in an incalculable gesture of suspended astonishment.”
― Leonora Carrington, Leonora Carrington: Surrealism, Alchemy and Art

“The Mexican traditions of magic and witchcraft are fascinating, but they are not the same as mine, do you understand? I think every country has a magical tradition, but our approach to the unknown is peculiar to our ancestry. It is something that has to do with birth, your blood, flesh and bones.”
― Leonora Carrington, Leonora Carrington: Surrealism, Alchemy and Art