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.
Painting becomes interesting when it becomes timeless. - Peter Doig
Painting becomes interesting when it becomes timeless.
- Peter Doig
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 … - Peter Doig
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 …
I love Trinidad and I love living there, but it's quite harsh. - Peter Doig
I love Trinidad and I love living there, but it's quite harsh.
I constantly have to negotiate with my doubts. - Peter Doig
I constantly have to negotiate with my doubts.
I would never finish a painting if I didnt have a deadline. - Peter Doig
I would never finish a painting if I didnt have a deadline.
It's not about perfection. What's a perfect painting? What's interesting about a perfect painting? - Peter Doig
It's not about perfection. What's a perfect painting? What's interesting about a perfect painting?
There could be a hundred paintings in every one painting, depending on when you stop. - Peter Doig
There could be a hundred paintings in every one painting, depending on when you stop.
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 pro… - Peter Doig
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 pro…
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
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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