Top 96 Quotes About Doig
#1. It's not about perfection. What's a perfect painting? What's interesting about a perfect painting?
Peter Doig
#2. Men with style are great because they have a sense of self.
Lexa Doig
#3. I love Trinidad and I love living there, but it's quite harsh.
Peter Doig
#4. My most recent purchase was a black lace corset.
Lexa Doig
#5. The idea of taking off my shoes and trying on all these clothes is so exhausting, I just leave.
Lexa Doig
#6. Painting becomes interesting when it becomes timeless.
Peter Doig
#7. What is Imagination but mental mischief of a kind, and why can't the youngster protectively occupy himself with invention of that sort before maturity works him over?
Ivan Doig
#8. It's funny about imagination, how it
Ivan Doig
#9. In a time like that, the past meets you wherever you turn. The days do not use their own hours and minutes, they find ones you have lived through with the person you are missing.
Ivan Doig
#10. Every soldier in the course of time exists only in the breath of written word.
Ivan Doig
#11. Anyone who grows up around farm animals cannot side with a wolf in the long clash of things. But you can be against tormenting any creature.
Ivan Doig
#12. I'm not one of those artists having people there lying around on their paintings, you know, like Hockney or whoever.
Peter Doig
#13. My relationships with my loved ones always take precedence over work.
Lexa Doig
#14. I thought again what an achievement a book is, a magic box simultaneously holding the presence of the author and the wonders of the world.
Ivan Doig
#15. The idea of running around and screaming about Jason Voorhees trying to kill you was fun.
Lexa Doig
#16. What scrunched under our overshoes as we trudged through the stubble of the grainfield was the nasty mix of moistureless snow and windblown dirt that we called snirt.
Ivan Doig
#17. I was actually a bit disappointed about the amount of sex in the show. I think Backus should get out a bit more, get a relationship, perhaps make her a lesbian.
Lexa Doig
#18. The Marmots of Impure Thinking were being banished by the Bicycle Wheel of Truth
Tom Doig
#19. We count by years, but we live by days.
Ivan Doig
#20. What is bad painting? Picabia made some deliberately bad paintings, but they were by him, so great in a way.
Peter Doig
#21. It's a dream part, running around with guns, being an agent.
Lexa Doig
#22. Little wonder I am celebrated by in-flight magazines everywhere as 'The Richard Branson of the Dark Ages
Tom Doig
#23. Men and women are hard ore, we do not go to slag in a mere few seasons of forge.
Ivan Doig
#24. my stints of employment had been eaten away by the acid of boredom, the drip-by-drip sameness of a job causing my mind to yawn and sneak off elsewhere.
Ivan Doig
#25. Life is a zigzag journey, they say, not much straight and easy on the way, but the wrinkles in the map, explorers know, smooth out like magic at the end of where we go.
Ivan Doig
#26. My parents used to take me to a lot of theatre when I was young.
Lexa Doig
#27. I'm very proud to be Canadian, but I would move to New York in a heartbeat.
Lexa Doig
#28. I would never finish a painting if I didn't have a deadline.
Peter Doig
#29. Thank God my parents had an abundance of patience.
Lexa Doig
#30. I was taken to one place by a director, and he bought me a lap dance.
Lexa Doig
#32. It doesn't take much to make me happy.
Lexa Doig
#33. 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
#34. Twelve years old was awfully early to meet up with what inevitability does to possibility.
Ivan Doig
#35. 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
#36. 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.
Peter Doig
#37. That whole fussy room still carried an atmosphere of having been crocheted into existence rather than carpentered.
Ivan Doig
#38. Being stuck in airports, you always end up buying perfume and sunglasses.
Lexa Doig
#40. I'm so much more of an East Coast girl than a West Coast girl.
Lexa Doig
#41. I figured if you're a man who knows his books, you can deal with the literary types who come out when the moon is full.
Ivan Doig
#42. Hindsight is always through bifocals: it peers specifically instead of seeing whole.
Ivan Doig
#43. I had cleavage that would make Dolly Parton proud. But those things are really heavy and I'm pretty slight of frame, so I took them out. No one even noticed.
Lexa Doig
#44. The spaces between stars are where the work of the universe is done.
Ivan Doig
#45. Life is wide. There's room to take a new run at it.
Ivan Doig
#46. 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 ...
Peter Doig
#47. Even when it stands vacant the past is never empty.
Ivan Doig
#48. It takes some real hard running to stay in the same place
Ivan Doig
#49. NOW CAME OUR INTRODUCTION to Smiley, former rodeo clown, whose name outside the costume might as well have been Cranky as Hell.
Ivan Doig
#50. There is more time than there is expanse of the world and so any voyage at last will end.
Ivan Doig
#51. 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.
Peter Doig
#52. 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
#53. 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
#54. For as long as there are men and women, some things in life will best be done arm in arm, and strolling in a flower garden is one.
Ivan Doig
#55. THAT BEGAN a spell of time when the high point of my days was the sugar on my cereal.
Ivan Doig
#56. I did some artistic nudes when I was I 8 with a French-Canadian photographer while I was modeling. They were beautiful shots, and they were not about nudity.
Lexa Doig
#57. Downtown is divided again, between the blocks of brick emporiums of the 1880s and a straggle of modern stores which look as if they have been squeezed from a tube labeled Instant Shopping Center.
Ivan Doig
#58. 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.
Peter Doig
#59. Childhood is the one story that stands by itself in every soul.
Ivan Doig
#61. The thing about Canada is, you're not really considered a Canadian actor unless you do something with the CBC.
Lexa Doig
#62. 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
#63. I'm off to save the universe again. It's a tough job but someone has to do it, and I'm glad it's me.
Lexa Doig
#64. have a bunkhouse, but this was the most comfortably close to such a thing since the
Ivan Doig
#65. 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
#66. Seppuku is Japanese for ritual suicide. I thought, What a cute name for a coat.
Lexa Doig
#67. I am a writer, not a transcriber.
Ivan Doig
#68. I've always been an outsider. Even in London. If I returned to Scotland, I'd feel a complete foreigner.
Peter Doig
#69. It doesn't matter if you're staying at a four-star hotel, you will never have your whole closet with you.
Lexa Doig
#70. A song says something to us that we can't hear in any other way. There is a kind of magic to it. Music does not simply soothe the savage breast, it reaches to our better nature, wouldn't we all agree?
Ivan Doig
#71. Although I was the one cast out alone onto a transcontinental bus, home was running away from me
Ivan Doig
#72. Nightly awaits that sweet address
Principality of Sleep
Happy Land of Forgetfullness
Ivan Doig
#73. 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
#74. I sit on my duff, smoke cigarettes and watch TV. I'm not exactly a poster girl for healthy living.
Lexa Doig
#75. It came to me more as a whisper of suggestion than the fundamental adage that it is - if this is not biblical, I shall always believe it should be - that all of us need someone who loves us enough to forgive us despite the history.
Ivan Doig
#76. A peasant with gold is still a peasant
Tom Doig
#77. What a wealth we are granted, in the books that carry the best in us through time.
Ivan Doig
#78. 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.
Peter Doig
#79. Thongs don't show. With jeans, you're always going to get panty lines and I think that's just a big mistake.
Lexa Doig
#80. There could be a hundred paintings in every one painting, depending on when you stop.
Peter Doig
#81. For the past 10 years, people have been making fun of the eighties. Why are we bringing them back?
Lexa Doig
#82. I do see myself going to LA. Not anytime soon.
Lexa Doig
#83. Kiddo,' he said tiredly, 'you have to realize, a sizable number of the population gets its start in a back seat, that's just life.
Ivan Doig
#84. 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
#85. I constantly have to negotiate with my doubts.
Peter Doig
#86. Cycling, like masturbation, is fun and easy to do - sometimes all day long.
Tom Doig
#87. My books already threatened to take over my part of the room and keep on going ... whatever cargoes of words I could lay my hands on I gave safe harbor.
Ivan Doig
#88. I have read that the finest Persian carpets would have one strand deliberately left astray, to avoid the sin of pride that perfection might bring.
Ivan Doig
#89. The nature of love is that it catches you off-guard, subjects you to rules you have never faced, some of them contradictory.
Ivan Doig
#90. I toyed with the idea of pursuing a career as a lawyer just because I like to argue.
Lexa Doig
#91. I thought I wanted to be a brain surgeon until I realized all the schooling it required. I didn't like school very much so I had to come up with something else.
Lexa Doig
#92. 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
#93. I'm totally on a mission to find my signature scent, but I'm too mercurial.
Lexa Doig
#95. Thinking is thinking. It happens in spite of a person. ... I don't have any choice. This stuff I'm talking about is on my mind whether or not I want it to be. English Creek
Ivan Doig
#96. People come and go in our lives; that's as old a story as there is. But some of them the heart cries out to keep forever; and that is a fresh saga everytime.
Ivan Doig
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