I would never finish a painting if I didnt have a deadline.

- Peter Doig

Painting becomes interesting when it becomes timeless.

- Peter Doig

I love Trinidad and I love living there, but it's quite harsh.

- Peter Doig

I constantly have to negotiate with my doubts.

- Peter Doig

It's not about perfection. What's a perfect painting? What's interesting about a perfect painting?

- 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.

- Peter Doig

There could be a hundred paintings in every one painting, depending on when you stop.

- 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

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