Paula Rego Quotes
- Sketches always have more vitality than paintings because you're finding things out through doing them.
- Art is the only place you can do what you like. That's freedom.
- Every change is a form of liberation. My mother used to say a change is always good even if it's for the worse.
- 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…
- We interpret the world through stories... everybody makes in their own way sense of things, but if you have stories it helps.
- If you put frightening things into a picture, then they can't harm you. In fact, you end becoming quite fond of them.
- 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…
- 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 you…
- Another thing that escapes me is HOW to give substance to the forms. One day they look solid and 'real' and they seem to hinge…
- That is why my pictures don't look like modern art. It's some sort of timidity on my part I'm sure.
- Poetry is good for unleashing images.
- I'm not fashionable at all, and the fact that I manage to sell pictures without being fashionable is thanks to my gallery.
- The gaps between the forms worry me. I can never get these spaces right...
- I thought the only way you can get into things is... through the basement... exactly where my studio was ... I could creep upstairs and…