Peter Doig quotes

Peter Doig is a Scottish artist renowned for his vibrant, dreamlike landscape paintings. His work blends elements of memory, photography, and imagination, creating evocative and atmospheric scenes. He is regarded as one of the most important contemporary painters of his generation. Here are 11 of his quotes:

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

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

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 won't help you make a better painting.

Peter Doig

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

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 a special studio built, and he felt completely emasculated in there. I have to be somewhere comfortable.

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

If you are someone like Jeff Koons, and you have to work out how to make a big chrome heart or something, then there are lots of people and a big production involved. The money is more natural somehow. For me, I am just on my own in the studio, trying to make things work. One thing is sure: it doesn't make painting any easier.

Peter Doig