Leonora Carrington Quotes

I think all art - if it's good - is a result of really trying to create something that you can't put into words. Where language ends is where good art begins.

As an artist, I want to interpret my feelings

The artist deals with what cannot be said in words.

Art does not exist for politics, or for instruction- it exists primarily for pleasure, or it is nothing.

Can one make works which are not works of 'art'?

When people say, 'I don't get art' ... that means art is working.

Why not spend that time on art: painting, sculpting, charcoal, pastel, oils? Are words or numbers more important than images? Who decides this? Does algebra move you to tears? Can plural possessives express the feelings in your heart? If you don't learn art now, you will never learn to breathe!

Art is about emotion; if art needs to be explained it is no longer art.

Art does not imitate, but interpret. It searches out the idea lying dormant in the symbol, in order to present the symbol to men in such form as to enable them to penetrate through it to the idea. Were it otherwise, what would be the use or value of art?

I realize that every picture isn't a work of art.

Art indeed is a term referring to the social source and to the social utility of creative acts.

Art doesn't transform. It just plain forms.

Art is something that opens up and enhances your emotions and that's what I like to think I'm doing.

Drawing is like making an expressive gesture with the advantage of permanence.

I make pictures and someone comes in and calls it art.

The mission of art is to represent nature not to imitate her.

Life is very nice, but it lacks form. It's the aim of art to give it some.

The job of art is to chase ugliness away.

To express to you in mere words, our personal feelings on this occasion you must know to be impossible, and particularly so for one who normally has to describe only things outside himself.

Every artist in the world likes his or her work to make people think.

We should always remember that sensitiveness and emotion constitute the real content of a work of art.

Art is the concrete representation of our most subtle feelings.

The role of art in society is not to resolve conflicts; rather, it is to express these conflicts and antagonisms.

I think art is communication. To that extent, it can be the words between the words. It has a possibility of communicating something more than people can do with prose or just talking.

The purpose of art is to accumulate the human within the human being.