Sentimentality is a form of fatigue.
Leonora Carrington
I am as mysterious to myself as I am mysterious to others.
I didn't have time to be anybody's muse; I was too busy rebelling against my parents and learning to be an artist.
Everyone's had an interesting life. Unless they're interested in business or something.
One is born, one lives, one dies. What death is, I don't know.
You don't decide to paint. It's like getting hungry and going to the kitchen to eat. It's a need, not a choice.
I do miss England. Well, I miss the idea of England, I think. But I haven't been back for years. I probably just miss the past.
I have always thought - and a lot of people won't agree with this - that we're incredibly driven by fear, basically. Aren't we? It's awful to be frightened. I think it's a very strong, very powerful thing, fear.
In the political confusion and the torrid heat, I convinced myself that Madrid was the world's stomach and that I had been chosen for the task of restoring this digestive organ to health.
I suppose what I believe in is peaceful anarchy.
I hated being in a convent. It's another form of power. Manipulation. Because who can say - one God for the whole universe? I think there must be millions of gods! And they're not all of them very nice.
I never thought of myself as a Surrealist. I didn't think of myself as anything. I try not to. We all have these egos.
What would anyone want to write about me for? I'm just an old lady.
