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Top 15 Peter Doig Quotes (2024 Update)

Peter Doig Quote: “It’s not about perfection. What’s a perfect painting? What’s interesting about a perfect painting?”

1. “It’s not about perfection. What’s a perfect painting? What’s interesting about a perfect painting?”

Peter Doig Quote: “There could be a hundred paintings in every one painting, depending on when you stop.”

2. “There could be a hundred paintings in every one painting, depending on when you stop.”

Peter Doig Quote: “What is bad painting? Picabia made some deliberately bad paintings, but they were by him, so great in a way.”

3. “What is bad painting? Picabia made some deliberately bad paintings, but they were by him, so great in a way.”

Peter Doig Quote: “I constantly have to negotiate with my doubts.”

4. “I constantly have to negotiate with my doubts.”

Peter Doig Quote: “Painting becomes interesting when it becomes timeless.”

5. “Painting becomes interesting when it becomes timeless.”

Peter Doig Quote: “I don’t feel any real animosity towards critics when they write negative things. I think some are more perceptive than others. Some are very knowledgeable about painting. But it isn’t something I have any influence over, so there isn’t any point in worrying about it.”

6. “I don’t feel any real animosity towards critics when they write negative things. I think some are more perceptive than others. Some are very knowledgeable about painting. But it isn’t something I have any influence over, so there isn’t any point in worrying about it.”

Peter Doig Quote: “I love Trinidad and I love living there, but it’s quite harsh.”

7. “I love Trinidad and I love living there, but it’s quite harsh.”

Peter Doig Quote: “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.”

8. “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 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.”

9. “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 Quote: “I would never finish a painting if I didnt have a deadline.”

10. “I would never finish a painting if I didnt have a deadline.”

Peter Doig Quote: “Seeing a play, listening to music – you’ll always contextualize it in your own way. Whoever you are, wherever you are; I think that’s really important.”

11. “Seeing a play, listening to music – you’ll always contextualize it in your own way. Whoever you are, wherever you are; I think that’s really important.”

Peter Doig 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.”

12. “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 Quote: “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 completed.”

13. “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 completed.”

Peter Doig Quote: “It’s still an escape for me, painting, so it also takes me elsewhere. I don’t think I would do it otherwise.”

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

15. “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 Quote: “I also learned that you are affected by your environment, even if you try not to be. Color, light that is, matters because you want to do justice to it and also you get excited by it.”

16. “I also learned that you are affected by your environment, even if you try not to be. Color, light that is, matters because you want to do justice to it and also you get excited by it.”

Peter Doig Quote: “I’m not one of those artists having people there lying around on their paintings, you know, like Hockney or whoever.”

17. “I’m not one of those artists having people there lying around on their paintings, you know, like Hockney or whoever.”

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