Car Rego Quotes

#1. I'm a Brooklyn boy. I was born in Brooklyn, New York, and raised there, and spent most of my childhood there.

Robert Jay Lifton

#2. 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

#3. Stab the body and it heals, but injure the heart and the wound lasts a lifetime.

Mineko Iwasaki

#4. The greatest human quest is to know what one must do in order to become a human being.

Immanuel Kant

#5. I've got two vices: cigarettes and taters.

Paula Deen

#6. Wonder, as a quality of intellect, has fallen from favor.

Lyanda Lynn Haupt

#7. 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

#8. It was a place that is trying to destroy the individual by every means possible; trying to break his spirit, so that he accepts that he is No. 6 and will live there happily as No. 6 for ever after. And this is the one rebel that they can't break.

Patrick McGoohan

#9. Ask yourself, 'how long am I going to work to make my dreams come true?' I suggest you answer, 'as long as it takes.'

Jim Rohn

#10. The snow-haired Uncle Dap, so old as to be absolutely fabulous, was trying to jump over his walking-stick.

T.H. White

#11. 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

#12. The worst thing about love between human beings is that when you are prepared to love them they don't want it; when they do its you who can't bear the idea.

Patrick White

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

Paula Rego

#14. Push me and I will. I'll get punished, but you'll still be dead.

Nalini Singh

#15. Heaven has abandoned us. But you, the tool of his crime, will assuredly perish! Thereupon Li Ru grew more angry, laid hands on the Empress and threw her out of the window.

Luo Guanzhong

#16. I honestly if I get a vacation I'm gonna go and sit on my couch in New York cause that's the one place I haven't been for a very long time.

Matt Damon

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

Paula Rego

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

Paula Rego

#19. Djinn," she said. "We go to review the troops. Clothe me as befits a queen."
"Silks and satins?" he asked, eyes sparkling like sapphires. "White brocade?"
"Armor," she said. "And flame.

Elizabeth Bear

#20. 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

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

Paula Rego

#22. 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

#23. Poetry is good for unleashing images.

Paula Rego

#24. 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