You don't decide to paint. It's like getting hungry and going to the kitchen to eat. It's a need, not a choice.
Interpretation
Creating art is an instinctual drive rather than a conscious decision.
In this quote, Leonora Carrington expresses the idea that the act of creating art is akin to fulfilling a basic human need, like hunger. It implies that artists are compelled to create not because they choose to, but because they must, as if it's an intrinsic part of their identity and existence.
In practice
During an art workshop, I might say, 'As Leonora Carrington once said, creating art is a need, not a choice.'
You may not believe in magic but something very strange is happening at this very moment. Your head has dissolved into thin air and I can see the rhododendrons through your stomach. It's not that you are dead or anything dramatic like that, it is simply that you are fading away and I can't even remember your name.
I didn't have time to be anybody's muse; I was too busy rebelling against my parents and learning to be an artist.
I didn't have time to be anyone's muse... I was too busy rebelling against my family and learning to be an artist.
We went down into the silent garden. Dawn is the time when nothing breathes, the hour of silence. Everything is transfixed, only the light moves.
The Whole Business of Man is The Arts, & All Things Common.
Music has to keep moving. But I was lucky. For me there was always something around the corner.
For too many centuries women have been being muses to artists. I wanted to be the muse, I wanted to be the wife of the artist, but I was really trying to avoid the final issue β that I had to do the job myself.
Photography is about a single point of a moment. Itβs like stopping time. As everything gets condensed in that forced instant. But if you keep creating these points, they form a line which reflects your life.
Movies took you right up to the edge but kept you safe.
You're allowed to bore your friends and family, but to bore your audience is unforgivable.
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