Am Quote by 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 trying to…

— 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 can be…

— 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 it's my…

— Peter Doig

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

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

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

— Peter Doig

I constantly have to negotiate with my doubts.

— 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 Bacon had…

— Peter Doig

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

— Peter Doig