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Leonora Carrington

  • “Painting is my vehicle of transit. I don't always know where I am going or what it means.”

    • Leonora Carrington,
    • in Leslie Sills, Visions ()

  • “[At age 92:] There are places I'd like to return to. But not as I was then but as I am now. 'Cause I'm trying to understand. And I've understood nothing.”

    • Leonora Carrington,
    • in The Los Angeles Times ()

Leonora Carrington, British-born Mexican artist, surrealist painter. novelist

(1917 - 2011)