Zitat des Tages von 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
If you are someone like Jeff Koons, and you have to work out how to make a big chrome heart or something, then there are lots of people and a big production involved. The money is more natural somehow. For me, I am just on my own in the studio, trying to make things work. One thing is sure: it doesn't make painting any easier.
As an artist, you are aware there is this strange money market out there, but you have no sense of how it works.
Painting becomes interesting when it becomes timeless.
