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Leonor Fini

  • Paintings, like dreams, have a life of their own and I have always painted very much the way I dream.

    • Leonor Fini,
    • in Nina Winter, Interview With the Muse ()
  • I always imagined I would have a life very different from the one that was imagined for me, but I understood from a very early time that I would have to revolt in order to make that life. Now I am convinced that in any creativity there exists this element of revolt.

    • Leonor Fini,
    • in Nina Winter, Interview With the Muse ()
  • I paint pictures which do not exist and which I would like to see.

    • Leonor Fini,
    • in Nina Winter, Interview With the Muse ()

Leonor Fini, Argentine surrealist painter

(1908 - 1996)