Rego Quotes & Sayings

Poetry is good for unleashing images. — 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

Christians believe that God came amongst us as a man, do they not? Yet the Muselmen say he was only a prophet, and that God has no name ... We fight and kill each other so readily, yet if I had been born in the East, would I not believe the stories they believe, and if they had been born here, would they not be Christians? — David Clement-Davies

Scratch an Irishman and he'll bleed a story. — Jean Zimmerman

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 they knew how much you kept inside to keep from hurting them, but hurting yourself instead, maybe they'd love you more. — Darnell Lamont Walker

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

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

The best thing you can do for the poor is..not be one of them — Andrew Matthews

I get inspiration from things that have nothing to do with painting: caricature, items from newspapers, sights in the street, proverbs, nursery-rhymes, children's games and songs, nightmares, desires, terrors ... That question [why do you paint?] has been put to me before and my answer was, 'To give terror a face.' But it's more than that. I paint because I can't help it. — Paula Rego

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 upon each other and splinter and creak, fall with a thud to the bottom of the canvas and drag across the surface, and the next day they are like dust, all lightweight and just stuck there. — Paula Rego

FIRST DIP, THIRD NIP We went out on the lake and, after his first dip in the water, I noticed the mole on his chest had reacted to the cold. Triple nipple is a deal breaker. - Jillian — Robert K. Elder

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

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

The individual is the brain, not the heart. — Christiaan Barnard

Oversight versus Insight: Most of us want to oversee the situation without insight of the situation. Knowledge is King. — Bobby F. Kimbrough Jr.

It is one of the many savage ironies in a life suffused with tragedy, that, when she was still married to Prince Charles, one of Diana's most cherished ambitions was to spend a weekend in Paris without bodyguards or photographers, losing herself in the crowd. Instead, as life slipped from her, with the Mercedes horn mournfully blaring into the night like a macabre 'Last Post', her adult life ended as it had begun, in the brazen, staccato embrace of the camera flash. Even in the city of dreams she could not escape her past. — Andrew Morton

But how do you apologize for this? I know what I did, I know it was bad, some of it was really bad. But how am I supposed to fix anything now? — Amanda Maciel

They seemed to be of that age when things were either one or the other, with no middle ground. — Kate Griffin

I believe,' said Marcus Furius, 'that an order of male virgins who never see the light of day would be ideal for the operation of a computing machine such as this. — M T Anderson

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 paste it down, then you change it, then you shove it about, then you may paint bits of it over, so actually you're not making the picture there and then, you're making it through a process, so it's not so spontaneous. — Paula Rego

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

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. — Paula Rego

Growing up, I knew you were supposed to have a profession - and something better than being a shopkeeper, which is what my parents were. — Les Wexner

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 things, and bring them down with me ... where I could munch away at them. — 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 too much of another and you get too small. You've got to find your own doorway into things ... — Paula Rego

I realized, in removing or rewriting these jokes, that often the jokes weren't done or that I was using, for me, the curse words as kind of a crutch. So then I just started writing. — Jim Gaffigan

Every question does not deserve an answer. — Publilius Syrus

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