69 Quotes by Leonora Carrington

How can anybody be a person of quality if they wash away their ghosts with common sense?

Thousands of people know my flannel knickers, and though I know this may seem flirtatious, it is not. I am a saint.

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

Wouldn’t it be wonderful if I won a helicopter in a crossword puzzle competition? There is not much hope though I am afraid, as they never give such practical prizes.

I often feel I am being burned at the stake just because I have always refused to give up that wonderful strange power I have inside me that becomes manifested when I am in harmonious communication with some other inspired being.

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

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

I never eat meat as I think it is wrong to deprive animals of their life when they are so difficult to chew anyway.

I am never lonely, Galahad. Or rather I never suffer from loneliness. I suffer much from the idea that my loneliness might be taken away from me by a lot of mercilessly well-meaning people.