26 Quotes by Paula Rego

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

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.

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

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 get too big, then you take too much of another and you get too small. You’ve got to find your own doorway into things...

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

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.