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.
Painting becomes interesting when it becomes timeless. - Peter Doig
Painting becomes interesting when it becomes timeless.
- Peter Doig
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?
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 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 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.
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.
I constantly have to negotiate with my doubts. - Peter Doig
I constantly have to negotiate with my doubts.
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 …
What is bad painting? Picabia made some deliberately bad paintings, but they were by him, so great in a way. - Peter Doig
What is bad painting? Picabia made some deliberately bad paintings, but they were by him, so great in a way.
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