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“You cannot just be working in a vast, air-conditioned loft…” quote by Peter Doig — Download Open 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 a special studio built, and he felt completely emasculated in there. I have to be somewhere comfortable.”

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