Literary Birthday – 6 April – Leonora Carrington

Leonora Carrington was born on 6 April 1917 and died on 25 May 2011.

Leonora Carrington Quotes

1. Dawn is the time when nothing breathes, the hour of silence. Everything is transfixed, only the light moves.
2. I didn’t have time to be anyone’s muse… I was too busy rebelling against my family and learning to be an artist.
3. People under seventy and over seven are very unreliable if they are not cats.
4. One has to be careful what one takes when one goes away forever.
5. 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.
6. The task of the right eye is to peer into the telescope, while the left eye peers into the microscope.
7. There are things that are not sayable. That’s why we have art.
8. Art is a magic which makes the hours melt away and even days dissolve into seconds.
9. Sentimentality is a form of fatigue.

Leonora Carrington was a British-born Mexican artist, surrealist painter, and novelist. She is the author of The Hearing Trumpet, House of Fear, and The Stone Door. Her short stories can be read in The Complete Stories of Leonora Carrington. Carrington was also a founding member of the women’s liberation movement in Mexico during the 1970s. In May 2024 her painting Les Distractions de Dagobert was sold for $28.5 million at Sotheby’s auction house in New York. At the time, this was a record amount paid for a work by a British-born female artist. When she died at age 94, Carrington was believed to be the last of the Surrealists.

Source for image: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonora_Carrington

by Amanda Patterson

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