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Leonora Carrington Quotes

I didn't have time to be anybody's muse; I was too busy rebelling against my parents and learning to be an artist.

Leonora Carrington

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: artist
Nationality: british
Birth: April 6, 1917 - May 25, 2011

Topics

Learning Time Parents Busy Artist

Oh, I definitely want to direct. I have young children. My job is already big enough, and I imagine it will be even more so as a director, and I don't want to miss out on them growing up. I'm going to wait until they're a bit older before I leap into that seat.

Children Job Growing Up Wait Enough

I have a simple life. I mean, you just give me a drum roll, they announce my name, and I come out and sing. In my job I have a contract that says I'm a singer. So I sing.

Life Simple Job Me Name You

I've worked on shows where the actors don't talk to each other, and if they want to talk to each other, they talk through the director. What kind of existence is this? If I have to spend 14 hours a day with somebody, we're in a relationship. We'd better talk it out.

Relationship Day Better Want Kind

I wrote a song for my sister's wedding.

Sister Song Wedding Wrote

It's nice if people ask to use your song. You have to make a decision as an artist how you feel about that.

Decision People Song You Artist Ask

I don't work well outside the lines; my report card once read, 'doesn't play well with others.'

Work Play Others Outside Lines Well

I don't believe in organized religion - I dealt with them hand in hand, and a whole bunch of Catholic priests tried to molest me. Telling me I was gay and I should go home with them and stuff.

Home Religion Me Believe Gay Hand

It comes down to building your own world out here on the road. It's who you surround yourself with. My band and crew are really positive guys.

Positive Yourself Surround Yourself

Though I am still very vulnerable to audiences - and it happens all the time - where for some reason the energy doesn't connect and, since the film is very personal, obviously I am made to feel very vulnerable by that.

Time I Am Energy Feel Personal Film

The only instrument I play myself is the ukulele.

Myself Play Ukulele Only Instrument

The worship of the golden calf of old has found a new and heartless image in the cult of money and the dictatorship of an economy which is faceless and lacking any truly human goal.

Money Goal New Dictatorship Golden

It is hard to imagine Thomas Kinkade as anything less than supremely self-assured.

Hard Anything Imagine Than Less

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