Peter Doig

A photo is like a map, a way of giving me a foot into a kind of reality I want... I'm not…

— Peter Doig

Painting doesn't have a function, not in the way that music or film does... I mean, you can dance to music. Music…

— 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

I'm not one of those artists having people there lying around on their paintings, you know, like Hockney or whoever.

— Peter Doig

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

— Peter Doig

I think if I was Trinidadian, I would latch more on to the myths and romanticise the place more. I don't think…

— Peter Doig

When I was growing up, I never felt that I belonged anywhere because we never lived in a house for more than…

— Peter Doig

How do you complete a painting, really? There are paintings by so many different artists that are interesting precisely because they haven't…

— Peter Doig

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

— Peter Doig

I constantly have to negotiate with my doubts.

— Peter Doig

If you are someone like Jeff Koons, and you have to work out how to make a big chrome heart or something,…

— Peter Doig

You cannot just be working in a vast, air-conditioned loft space and think you are going to make a decent painting. Francis…

— Peter Doig

As an artist, you are aware there is this strange money market out there, but you have no sense of how it…

— Peter Doig

I sometimes wish I had never had to sell a painting. Every painting you make represents the time it was made and…

— Peter Doig

I also learned that you are affected by your environment, even if you try not to be. Color, light that is, matters…

— Peter Doig

I do feel Scottish in some way. Maybe it's to do with visiting my grandparents here every summer as a child, but…

— Peter Doig

I don't think money can help you become a better painter, for sure. You can have all the studios you want; it…

— Peter Doig

I would never finish a painting if I didn't have a deadline.

— Peter Doig

I've always been an outsider. Even in London. If I returned to Scotland, I'd feel a complete foreigner.

— Peter Doig

Seeing a play, listening to music - you'll always contextualize it in your own way. Whoever you are, wherever you are; I…

— Peter Doig

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

— Peter Doig

Painting becomes interesting when it becomes timeless.

— Peter Doig

What is bad painting? Picabia made some deliberately bad paintings, but they were by him, so great in a way.

— Peter Doig

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

— Peter Doig

I don't feel any real animosity towards critics when they write negative things. I think some are more perceptive than others. Some…

— Peter Doig