I sometimes wish I had never had to sell a painting. Every painting you make represents the time … - Peter Doig

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You have to turn it around and say God still has a great plan for my life. I may not understand things that happen, but faith is all about trusting when you don't understand it.

Peter Doig

I sometimes wish I had never had to sell a painting. Every painting you make represents the time it was made and how you were feeling and what your influences were. . . You are never going to feel that way again, so you can never repeat it.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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