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

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

- 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

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

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

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

- 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…

- Paula Rego

Poetry is good for unleashing images.

- 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…

- Paula Rego