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 Copy Share Image
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… — Peter Doig Copy Share Image
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… — Peter Doig Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I'm not one of those artists having people there lying around on their paintings, you know, like Hockney or whoever. — Peter Doig Copy Share Image
There could be a hundred paintings in every one painting, depending on when you stop. — Peter Doig Copy Share Image
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… — Peter Doig Copy Share Image
When I was growing up, I never felt that I belonged anywhere because we never lived in a house for more than three months.… — Peter Doig Copy Share Image
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… — Peter Doig Copy Share Image
If you are someone like Jeff Koons, and you have to work out how to make a big chrome heart or something, then there… — Peter Doig Copy Share Image
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… — Peter Doig Copy Share Image
