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

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Movement is my medicine, my meditation, my metaphor and my method, a living language we can rely upon to tell us the truth about who we are, who we are with, and where we are going. There is no dogma in the dance.

Paula Rego

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

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If you put frightening things into a picture, then they can't harm you. In fact, you end becoming quite fond of them.

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

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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.

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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.

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

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In the market economy the price that is offered is counted upon to produce the result that is sought.

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There are few times when we know with absolute certainty we are going to do something for the last time. Life has a way of moving in circles, bringing us back to places we didn’t expect and taking us away from those we do. There are too many times we don’t pay close enough attention, and moments are lost in our assumption we’ll have another chance.

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