Peter Doig Quotes

Peter Doig — Scottish Artist

Peter Doig is a Scottish painter. One of the most renowned living figurative painters, he has settled in Trinidad since 2002. In 2007, his painting White Canoe sold at Sotheby's for $11.3 million, then an auction record for a living European artist. In February 2013, his painting, The Architect's Home in the Ravine, sold for $12 million at a London auction. Art critic Jonathan Jones said about him: "Amid all the nonsense, impostors, rhetorical bullshit and sheer trash that pass for art in the 21st century, Doig is a jewel of genuine imagination, sincere work and humble creativity.".. (wikipedia)

I would never finish a painting if I didn't have a deadline.

Painting becomes interesting when it becomes timeless.

It's still an escape for me, painting, so it also takes me elsewhere. I don't think I would do it otherwise.

It's not about perfection. What's a perfect painting? What's interesting about a perfect painting?

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