Paula Rego Quotes

Art is the only place you can do what you like. That's freedom.

If you put frightening things into a picture, then they can't harm you. In fact, you end becoming quite fond of them.

Every change is a form of liberation. My mother used to say a change is always good even if it's for the worse.

We interpret the world through stories... everybody makes in their own way sense of things, but if you have stories it helps.

Sketches always have more vitality than paintings because you're finding things out through doing them.

Poetry is good for unleashing images.

The gaps between the forms worry me. I can never get these spaces right.

I'm not fashionable at all, and the fact that I manage to sell pictures without being fashionable is thanks to my gallery.

That is why my pictures don't look like modern art. It's some sort of timidity on my part I'm sure.