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 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
