It's not about perfection. What's a perfect painting? What's interesting about a perfect painting? 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 purpose mean believe 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 listening play thinking Painting becomes interesting when it becomes timeless. Peter Doig timeless painting interesting 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 photography feet reality 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 color light justice 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 real writing thinking I constantly have to negotiate with my doubts. Peter Doig doubt What is bad painting? Picabia made some deliberately bad paintings, but they were by him, so great in a way. Peter Doig painting made way 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-out heart people 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-me painting thinking 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 space air thinking 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 wish feelings way There could be a hundred paintings in every one painting, depending on when you stop. Peter Doig painting hundred I'm not one of those artists having people there lying around on their paintings, you know, like Hockney or whoever. Peter Doig artist lying people 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 trinidadians outsiders thinking 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 want helping thinking I would never finish a painting if I didnt have a deadline. Peter Doig painting deadline ifs 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 strange artist I love Trinidad and I love living there, but it's quite harsh. Peter Doig trinidad harsh 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 different artist interesting
