Quotes by Peter Doig - Page 1

I constantly have to negotiate with my doubts.
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Painting becomes interesting when it becomes timeless.
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Interesting
Painting
Timeless
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I would never finish a painting if I didnt have a deadline.
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Deadline
Ifs
Painting
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I would never finish a painting if I didn't have a deadline.
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Deadline
Painting
Finish
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I love Trinidad and I love living there, but it's quite harsh.
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Harsh
Trinidad
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There could be a hundred paintings in every one painting, depending on when you stop.
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Hundred
Painting
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It's not about perfection. What's a perfect painting? What's interesting about a perfect painting?
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Interesting
Perfect
Perfection
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I've always been an outsider. Even in London. If I returned to Scotland, I'd feel a complete foreigner.
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Scotland
Complete
Foreigner
Returned
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What is bad painting? Picabia made some deliberately bad paintings, but they were by him, so great in a way.
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Made
Painting
Way
Deliberately
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It's still an escape for me, painting, so it also takes me elsewhere. I don't think I would do it otherwise.
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Elsewhere
Painting
Take Me
Thinking
Escape
Otherwise
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As an artist, you are aware there is this strange money market out there, but you have no sense of how it works.
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Artist
Strange
Market
No Sense
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I'm not one of those artists having people there lying around on their paintings, you know, like Hockney or whoever.
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Artist
Lying
People
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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.
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Helping
Painter
Studios
Thinking
Want
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Seeing a play, listening to music - you'll always contextualize it in your own way. Whoever you are, wherever you are; I think that's really important.
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Listening
Play
Thinking
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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 / Painter
Artist
Different
Interesting
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I think if I was Trinidadian, I would latch more on to the myths and romanticise the place more. I don't think it's my place to do that - they're not really mine. I'm an outsider.
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Outsiders
Thinking
Trinidadians
Myths
Outsider
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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.
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Color
Justice
Light
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When I was growing up, I never felt that I belonged anywhere because we never lived in a house for more than three months. That's all I knew, and that's why I don't really belong anywhere.
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Months
Anywhere
Belong
Never Three More
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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 / Painter
Space
Air
Decent
Painting
Thinking
Bacon
Vast
Francis
Just Be
Loft
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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.
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Feelings
Way
Wish
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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.
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Feet
Photography
Reality
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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 / Painter
Ancestry
Painter
Pushing
Scottish
Summer
Visiting
I Am Me Feel
I Am Me Way
Grandparents
Indeed
Label
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Painting doesn't have a function, not in the way that music or film does... I mean, you can dance to music. Music can be used for a soundtrack, so it has a function in that sense, beyond itself. But painting doesn't... But I do believe that painting has a purpose.
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Believe
Mean
Purpose
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I don't feel any real animosity towards critics when they write negative things. I think some are more perceptive than others. Some are very knowledgeable about painting. But it isn't something I have any influence over, so there isn't any point in worrying about it.
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Real
Thinking
Writing
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If you are someone like Jeff Koons, and you have to work out how to make a big chrome heart or something, then there are lots of people and a big production involved. The money is more natural somehow. For me, I am just on my own in the studio, trying to make things work. One thing is sure: it doesn't make painting any easier.
Peter Doig / Painter
Heart
Painting
People
Work Out
Jeff
Production
Somehow
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