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… — Paula Rego Copy Share Image
Sketches always have more vitality than paintings because you're finding things out through doing them. — 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,… — 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… — 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)
