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. . . we are all somehow dreadfully cracked about the head, and sadly need mending.

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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.

Painting, Take Me, Takes, Think, Thinking
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Painting doesn't have a function, not in the way that music or film does. . . I mean, you can dance to music. Music can be used for a soundtrack, so it has a function in that sense, beyond itself. But painting doesn't. . . But I do believe that painting has a purpose.

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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.

Contextualize, Listening, Music, Play, Thinking, Wherever

A photo is like a map, a way of giving me a foot into a kind of reality I want. . . I'm not trying to make paintings look like photos. I want to make paintings using photos as a reference, the way painters did when photography was first invented.

Feet, Look, Paintings, Photography, Photos, Reality

Painting becomes interesting when it becomes timeless.

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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.

Color, Justice, Light, Matters
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