I constantly have to negotiate with my doubts. Peter Doig More Quotes by Peter Doig More Quotes From Peter Doig 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. Peter Doig purposemeanbelieve 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. Peter Doig listeningplaythinking Painting becomes interesting when it becomes timeless. Peter Doig timelesspaintinginteresting 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 photographyfeetreality 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 colorlightjustice 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. Peter Doig realwritingthinking What is bad painting? Picabia made some deliberately bad paintings, but they were by him, so great in a way. Peter Doig paintingmadeway 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 work-outheartpeople It's not about perfection. What's a perfect painting? What's interesting about a perfect painting? Peter Doig perfectionperfectinteresting 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 take-mepaintingthinking 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 spaceairthinking 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 wishfeelingsway There could be a hundred paintings in every one painting, depending on when you stop. Peter Doig paintinghundred I'm not one of those artists having people there lying around on their paintings, you know, like Hockney or whoever. Peter Doig artistlyingpeople 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. Peter Doig trinidadiansoutsidersthinking 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 wanthelpingthinking I would never finish a painting if I didnt have a deadline. Peter Doig paintingdeadlineifs 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 strangeartist I love Trinidad and I love living there, but it's quite harsh. Peter Doig trinidadharsh 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 differentartistinteresting
