Peter Doig Quotes

It is through the human figure that I best succeed in expressing the nearly religious feeling that I have towards life.

I am unable to make any distinction between the feeling I get from life and the way I translate that feeling into painting.

Maybe the given person, cup, or landscape is lost before one gets to painting. A figure exerts a continuing and unspecified influence on a painting as the canvas develops. The represented forms are loaded with psychological feeling. It can't ever just be painting.

During the writing process, I tend not to listen to too much music. I obviously wear a lot of influences on my sleeve, but if I was listening to too many records, I would turn into too much of a monkey.

If you're feeling emotional when you're creating something, it'll sound that way.

When making a film, if I feel nothing in my body, I can't work. I have to touch. I have to feel. I never stop touching.

Art is not about thinking something up. It is the opposite - getting something down.

A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art.

When you're an actor or any kind of artist, you use your life as something to draw from in every experience.

I believe that my music is just about feelings, and the style is just a side effect.

There's always going to be life experiences that find their way into my songs.

My work is through my emotions, so everything kind of goes together.

You don't have to be singing specifically about things that are going on in your life, but because of the nature of music, because it is this incredibly emotional phenomenon, everything that you are feeling or experiencing is relayed in the music you put out.

I don't consider myself as a great painter; I just feel that art is about expressing your emotions and expressing your feelings, and music is the same way; you can see what other people are going through.

Emotions are the basics of any art form!

I take a pretty expansive view of craft, which is to say I don't see craft as just being technique - it's also process; subject; ideas and feelings; visions and dreams; the words that are put down and the words that are avoided.

It's pretty much rock-'n'-roll. I sit down and start feeling stuff and writing.

Find a way to express what moves you.

I never sit and fill a journal with lyrics. Most of the time I'm trying to write a feeling, not a story. I'm not necessarily trying to describe the details of a place or event so much as the feeling of the thing. It is a kind of weird alchemy that is elusive until it feels right.

I want to draw and study a few things closely by feeling, not thinking.

Many books that you read, they have those disclaimers that say that, "None of the events and none of the people are based on real life" and so on... Well, I don't believe that. I think that as human beings many people touch us, especially people we love the most and we can't help but do character sketches when we go to our art.

People who are making films today are too concerned with mechanics - technical things instead of feeling.

Art is mind and heart and touch as much and more than it is mere instrument, technique - without which however it cannot exist at all.

Music gets us in touch with our emotions in a way that's more intimate than any other art form.

Whats a gonzotic frenzy? Well its me in the throes of an ink splattering attempt to capture the feeling I have at that particular time.