To be a dog woman is not necessarily to be downtrodden; that has very little to do with it. In these pictures every woman's a dog woman, not downtrodden, but powerful. To be bestial is good. It's physical. Eating, snarling,… — Paula Rego Copy Share Image
“If you put frightening things into a picture then they can't harm you. If fact, you end becoming quite fond of them.” — Paula Rego Copy Share Image
To find one's way anywhere one has to find one's door, just like Alice, you see. You take too much of one thing and… — Paula Rego Copy Share Image
I'm not fashionable at all, and the fact that I manage to sell pictures without being fashionable is thanks to my gallery. — Paula Rego Copy Share Image
To be a dog woman is not necessarily to be downtrodden; that has very little to do with it. In these pictures every woman's… — Paula Rego Copy Share Image
We interpret the world through stories... everybody makes in their own way sense of things, but if you have stories it helps. — Paula Rego Copy Share Image
In collage you're doing it in stages so you're not actually doing it right there. You first of all draw it on the paper, then you cut it up, then you paste it down, then you change it, then you shove it about, then you may paint bits of it over, so actually you're not making the picture there and… — Paula Rego Copy Share
I get inspiration from things that have nothing to do with painting: caricature, items from newspapers, sights in the street, proverbs, nursery-rhymes, children's games… — Paula Rego Copy Share Image
The gaps between the forms worry me. I can never get these spaces right... — Paula Rego Copy Share Image
I thought the only way you can get into things is... through the basement... exactly where my studio was ... I could creep upstairs… — Paula Rego Copy Share Image
Another thing that escapes me is HOW to give substance to the forms. One day they look solid and 'real' and they seem to… — Paula Rego Copy Share Image
![“I get inspiration from things that have nothing to do with painting: caricature, items from newspapers, sights in the street, proverbs, nursery-rhymes, children's games and songs, nightmares, desires, terrors. ... That question [why do you paint?] has been put to me before and my answer was, 'To…” quote by Paula Rego](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/8a7/paula-rego-32940_answers_i-get-inspiration-from-things-that-have_1514162.jpg)
