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"Inn of the Dawn Horse", Self Portrait

LEONORA CARRINGHTON, the Surrealist Painter

Life & Work between Europe and México

"Painting is a need, not a choice."

"Dawn is the time when nothing breathes, the hour of silence. Everything is transfixed, only the light moves."

"I am as mysterious to myself as I am to others."

Leonora with her husband Max Hernest and sons

"Reason must know the heart's reasons and every other reason"

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"The duty of the right eye is to plunge into the telescope, whereas the left eye interrogates the microscope."