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, all activities to do with sensation are positive. To picture a woman as a dog is utterly believable.
We interpret the world through stories... everybody makes in their own way sense of things, but if you have stories it helps. - Paula Rego
We interpret the world through stories... everybody makes in their own way sense of things, but if you have stories it helps.
- Paula Rego
If you put frightening things into a picture, then they can't harm you. In fact, you end becoming quite fond of them. - Paula Rego
If you put frightening things into a picture, then they can't harm you. In fact, you end becoming quite fond of them.
Sketches always have more vitality than paintings because you're finding things out through doing them. - Paula Rego
Sketches always have more vitality than paintings because you're finding things out through doing them.
I thought the only way you can get into things is... through the basement... exactly where my studio was ... I could creep upstairs and snatch at thi… - Paula Rego
I thought the only way you can get into things is... through the basement... exactly where my studio was ... I could creep upstairs and snatch at thi…
That is why my pictures don't look like modern art. It's some sort of timidity on my part I'm sure. - Paula Rego
That is why my pictures don't look like modern art. It's some sort of timidity on my part I'm sure.
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
I'm not fashionable at all, and the fact that I manage to sell pictures without being fashionable is thanks to my gallery.
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 to… - Paula Rego
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 to…
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… - Paula Rego
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…
Poetry is good for unleashing images. - Paula Rego
Poetry is good for unleashing images.
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