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Peter Doig
Peter Doig
Scottish Artist
Born: 1959
Anywhere Me Money Painting Think You
Related authors: Andy Warhol Claude Monet Edvard Munch Leonardo da Vinci Michelangelo Pablo Picasso Salvador Dali Vincent Van Gogh
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
You Money Better Become Painting Think Studios Make Sure Want Help Painter
I do feel Scottish in some way. Maybe it's to do with visiting my grandparents here every summer as a child, but I am aware of my Scottish ancestry. It's there all right, but it would be pushing it to label me a Scottish painter. Or, indeed, an anywhere painter. Peter Doig
Me Every Summer Way Indeed Ancestry Visiting Would Would-Be Some Pushing Feel Am Label Scottish Child Maybe Anywhere Grandparents Painter Aware Right Here
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
Me Painting Think Otherwise Elsewhere Would Takes Also Still Escape
I love Trinidad and I love living there, but it's quite harsh. Peter Doig
Love Living Harsh Quite
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 place to do that - they're not really mine. I'm an outsider. Peter Doig
Think Mine Would More Outsider Myths Place Really
I've always been an outsider. Even in London. If I returned to Scotland, I'd feel a complete foreigner. Peter Doig
Complete London Outsider Feel Returned Always Been Foreigner Scotland Even
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
You Space Somewhere Just Be Painting Think Francis Francis Bacon Bacon Loft Vast Had He Studio Make Comfortable Felt Built Going Just Decent Cannot Working Special
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
You Strange Money Sense Market Out No Sense How Artist Works Aware
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
Work Me You Heart Natural People Money Big Own Painting Easier Out One Thing Somehow Someone Something My Own More Studio Like Involved Make Sure How Am Lots Trying Any Just Work Out Then Production Jeff Thing Things
Painting becomes interesting when it becomes timeless. Peter Doig
Painting Becomes Timeless Interesting
What is bad painting? Picabia made some deliberately bad paintings, but they were by him, so great in a way. Peter Doig
Great Made Painting Way Bad Some Deliberately Him Were Paintings

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