Leonora Carrington Quotes

In the experience of art, time seems not to exist. When I'm writing and think, "I've been working for two hours," I've actually been working for seven.

The public for which masterpieces are intended is not of this earth.

People get inspired to write, paint, draw, sing, sculpt, dance in many different ways. And there are many types of art. But the one thing that they all have in common is that they are all a sort of magic. Sometimes the magic flows from one’s fingers, other times it is transferred to the person who experiences the result. Magic has always worked in mysterious ways.

Art leads to a more profound concept of life, because art itself is a profound expression of feeling. The artist is born, and art is the expression of his overflowing soul. Because his soul is rich, he cares comparatively little about the superficial necessities of the material world; he sublimates the pressure of material affairs in an artistic experience.

Art is a sense of magic.

In the experience of art, time seems not to exist.

All real works of art look as though they were done in joy.

If I saw the art around me that I liked, then I wouldn't do art.

When you are in the field of creativity, you lose track of time. Only the flow exists.

Art is not about objects of high monetary exchange. It's about reasserting our firsthand experience in present time.

That is what art is at the end of the day: It's an escapism that we all crave.

The good we get from art is not what we learn from it; it is what we become through it.

Sometimes I think creativity is magic; it's not a matter of finding an idea, but allowing the idea to find you.

In the end nobody knows how it's done — how art is made. It can't be explained. Optical devices are just tools. Understanding a tool doesn't explain the magic of creation. Nothing can.

All great art ... creates in the beholder not self-satisfacti on but wonder and awe. Its great liberation is to lift us out of ourselves.

There’s a real question as to what beauty is and why it’s important to us. Many pseudo-philosophers try to answer these questions and tell us they’re not really answerable. I draw on art and literature, and music in particular, because music is a wonderful example of something that’s in this world but not of this world. Great works of music speak to us from another realm even though they speak to us in ordinary physical sounds.

Art is for stimulation, excitement, adventure.

Art is the means we have of undoing the damage of haste. It's what everything else isn't.

A work of art... is not a living thing... that walks or runs. But the making of a life. That which gives you a reaction. To some it is the wonder of man's fingers. To some it is the wonder of the mind. To some it is the wonder of technique. And to some it is how real it is. To some, how transcendent it is. Like the 5th Symphony, it presents itself with a feeling that you know it, if you have heard it once.

A work of art is one of mystery, the one extreme magic; everything else is either arithmetic or biology.

When I'm working, on stage, entertaining people, or watching someone do something amazing, it inspires me to be the best artist that I can be. I enjoy being around art - whether it be a museum, a Broadway show - or even writing a poem. Those are things that make me feel alive and inspire me.

It is the function of art to carry us beyond speech to experience.

Art makes the spirit soar. And when the spirit is lifted, life follows.

When I sit down at my writing desk, time seems to vanish. I think it's a wonderful way to spend one's life.

I don't get really inspired the way some people do, buzzing with ideas - it feels like hard work to me... but once I get hooked into the universe of a particular work it becomes almost like an aesthetic addiction.