The Surreal Life of Leonora Carrington Quotes

“Leonora [had an] instinctive conviction that the world needs to be seen as a layering of experiences and events.”
― Joanna Moorhead, The Surreal Life of Leonora Carrington

“It was a random meeting that changed all that, although for a Surrealist like Prim, as I later discovered, nothing in the world is ever truly random. She believed the events that seemed to be chance are actually preordained by the subconscious; the people and objects we encounter are embodiment of our inner desires, waiting to be discovered.”
― Joanna Moorhead, The Surreal Life of Leonora Carrington

“Death makes pioneers of us all, whether we like it or whether we don't.”
― Joanna Moorhead, The Surreal Life of Leonora Carrington

“You're trying to intellectualise something, desperately, and you're wasting your time ... To make it into mini-logic ... you never understand by that road.

- Quoting Leonora Carrington”
― Joanna Moorhead, The Surreal Life of Leonora Carrington