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 Read Quote
It’s not about perfection. What’s a perfect painting? What’s interesting about a perfect painting? Peter Doig Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
What is bad painting? Picabia made some deliberately bad paintings, but they were by him, so great in a way. Peter Doig Read Quote
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 Read Quote
When I was growing up, I never felt that I belonged anywhere because we never lived in a house for more than three months. That’s all I knew, and that’s why I don’t really belong anywhere. Peter Doig Read Quote
