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Peter Doig Quotes

Painting becomes interesting when it becomes timeless Picture Quote #1

I would never finish a painting if I didn’t have a deadline Picture Quote #1

I constantly have to negotiate with my doubts Picture Quote #1

You cannot just be working in a vast, air-conditioned loft space and think you are going to make a decent painting. Francis Bacon had a special studio built, and he felt completely emasculated in there. I have to be somewhere comfortable Picture Quote #1

I do feel Scottish in some way. Maybe it’s to do with visiting my grandparents here every summer as a child, but I am aware of my Scottish ancestry. It’s there all right, but it would be pushing it to label me a Scottish painter. Or, indeed, an anywhere painter Picture Quote #1

I’ve always been an outsider. Even in London. If I returned to Scotland, I’d feel a complete foreigner Picture Quote #1

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There could be a hundred paintings in every one painting, depending on when you stop Picture Quote #1

I also learned that you are affected by your environment, even if you try not to be. Color, light that is, matters because you want to do justice to it and also you get excited by it Picture Quote #1

How do you complete a painting, really? There are paintings by so many different artists that are interesting precisely because they haven’t really been completed Picture Quote #1

A photo is like a map, a way of giving me a foot into a kind of reality I want... I’m not trying to make paintings look like photos. I want to make paintings using photos as a reference, the way painters did when photography was first invented Picture Quote #1

I sometimes wish I had never had to sell a painting. Every painting you make represents the time it was made and how you were feeling and what your influences were... You are never going to feel that way again, so you can never repeat it Picture Quote #1

As an artist, you are aware there is this strange money market out there, but you have no sense of how it works Picture Quote #1

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I don’t think money can help you become a better painter, for sure. You can have all the studios you want; it won’t help you make a better painting Picture Quote #1

It’s not about perfection. What’s a perfect painting? What’s interesting about a perfect painting? Picture Quote #1

It’s still an escape for me, painting, so it also takes me elsewhere. I don’t think I would do it otherwise Picture Quote #1

What is bad painting? Picabia made some deliberately bad paintings, but they were by him, so great in a way Picture Quote #1

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Painting becomes interesting when it becomes timeless (Peter Doig Quotes) I would never finish a painting if I didn’t have a deadline (Peter Doig Quotes) I constantly have to negotiate with my doubts (Peter Doig Quotes) You cannot just be working in a vast, air-conditioned loft space and think you are going to make a decent painting. Francis Bacon had a special studio built, and he felt completely emasculated in there. I have to be somewhere comfortable (Peter Doig Quotes) I do feel Scottish in some way. Maybe it’s to do with visiting my grandparents here every summer as a child, but I am aware of my Scottish ancestry. It’s there all right, but it would be pushing it to label me a Scottish painter. Or, indeed, an anywhere painter. (Peter Doig Quotes) I’ve always been an outsider. Even in London. If I returned to Scotland, I’d feel a complete foreigner. (Peter Doig Quotes) There could be a hundred paintings in every one painting, depending on when you stop (Peter Doig Quotes) I also learned that you are affected by your environment, even if you try not to be. Color, light that is, matters because you want to do justice to it and also you get excited by it (Peter Doig Quotes) How do you complete a painting, really? There are paintings by so many different artists that are interesting precisely because they haven’t really been completed (Peter Doig Quotes) A photo is like a map, a way of giving me a foot into a kind of reality I want... I’m not trying to make paintings look like photos. I want to make paintings using photos as a reference, the way painters did when photography was first invented (Peter Doig Quotes) I sometimes wish I had never had to sell a painting. Every painting you make represents the time it was made and how you were feeling and what your influences were... You are never going to feel that way again, so you can never repeat it (Peter Doig Quotes) As an artist, you are aware there is this strange money market out there, but you have no sense of how it works (Peter Doig Quotes) I don’t think money can help you become a better painter, for sure. You can have all the studios you want; it won’t help you make a better painting (Peter Doig Quotes) It’s not about perfection. What’s a perfect painting? What’s interesting about a perfect painting? (Peter Doig Quotes) It’s still an escape for me, painting, so it also takes me elsewhere. I don’t think I would do it otherwise (Peter Doig Quotes) What is bad painting? Picabia made some deliberately bad paintings, but they were by him, so great in a way (Peter Doig Quotes)