Rego Quotes

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

Paula Rego

#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. The result always mattered more than the rhetoric.

Jeffrey Toobin

#4. One boy's a boy; two boys be half a boy, and three boys be no boy at all', ran the old country saying.

Flora Thompson

#5. 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

#6. He'll never compose whole odes to my beauty and grace. He'll never show up with a boom box to reenact Say Anything outside my window. He'll never drive over at three a.m. because I'm sick and can't sleep and just want to feel his arms around me.

Abby McDonald

#7. I think I should be a president. President of the United States.

Alexander McQueen

#8. 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

#9. How ramshackle, how brilliant, how haphazardly & rendered we are. Gloriously, fantastically mixed & monstered.

Aracelis Girmay

#10. Seriously? You won't help me?" "Help yourself get killed? No, I won't.

Dave Barry

#11. Life is expressed in a perpetual sequence of changes. The birth of the child is the death of the baby, just as the birth of the adolescent is the death of the child.

Arnaud Desjardins

#12. The more bitter the desert experience, the sweeter the water of the oasis.
The more I understand myself, the more effectively I can work with others.

Zig Ziglar

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

Paula Rego

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

Paula Rego

#15. The Holy Spirit does not speak to a soul that is distracted and garrulous. He speaks by His quiet inspirations to a soul that is recollected, to a soul that knows how to keep silence.

Maria Faustina Kowalska

#16. 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

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

Paula Rego

#18. The more willing you are to surrender to the energy within you, the more power can flow through you.

Shakti Gawain

#19. 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

#20. It is the blessing of dumb work done close to the earth-one gritty minute at a time, we move forward.

Michael Perry

#21. I feel like if you're a really good human being, you can try to find something beautiful in every single person, no matter what.

Lady Gaga

#22. Poetry is good for unleashing images.

Paula Rego

#23. On resigning as collaborator on the memoirs of the former Wallis Warfield Simpson, new summaries, 6 October 1955. You can't make the Duchess of Windsor into Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm.

Cleveland Amory

#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