Peter Doig Quotes
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.
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Never trust anything that can think for itself if you can't see where it keeps its brain.
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Sometimes one creates a dynamic impression by saying something, and sometimes one creates as significant an impression by remaining silent.
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And for the first time in a long time, I'm playing along somebody that has that same energy and fire and plays pretty much the same way I do. So, that was just nice to say.
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He who improves an opportunity sows a seed which will yield fruit in opportunity for himself and others.
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When I graduated, I was director of my school's sketch comedy group, and I knew that I wanted to be writing and performing my own sketch comedy. It kind of made me want to do my own one-person sketch group.
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From the spinners, Anil and I have been together for a long time and I respect him a lot.
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Don't be surprised if you find me doing some charity work in another country.
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In essence, capitalist systems are a mechanism by which economies may generate growth in knowledge - with much uncertainty in the process, owing to the incompleteness of knowledge.
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I've got a bunch of books... I rely on funny books and movies to cheer me up. Oh, but I must say, I do have the world's most perfect husband, so a cuddle from him always cheers me up. He's a good guy.
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I am happy to donate funds to various organizations that help people in need.
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I have come here only to share the voices and dreams of our children - because they are all our children.
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For me rappers and dancers are poets and artists and often times the most interesting performances are given by them.
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The Highlander was a documentary, and events happened in real time.
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I like the fact that I can do stunts, but I don't think of myself as a stunt guy. Those guys are really good at what they do.
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The culinary tradition in my family is very strong. My mother, a very wise woman, spent the better part of her life in a kitchen. It's a very strong part of her identity. I grew up there next to the fire.
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I feel like you just need to keep writing until the writing itself just begins to take shape.
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If you realize too acutely how valuable time is, you are too paralyzed to do anything.
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I don't go to the gym because I don't have time, but I do Pilates workout DVDs for 20 minutes or more every day at home.
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One reason I love the Kindle, more so than the iPad, is that on the Kindle you can't do anything else but read. It's the best, because it does the least. It doesn't even show a clock.
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Je vais t'entretenir de moindres aventures,Te tracer en ces vers de légères peintures;Et si de t'agréer je n'emporte le prix,J'aurai du moins d'honneur de l'avoir entrepris.
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I was always artistic - right from childhood - but my love of painting came a bit later. It followed my love of music.
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Redwood time moves at a more stately pace than human time. To us, when we look at a redwood tree, it seems to be motionless and still, and yet redwoods are constantly in motion, moving upward into space, articulating themselves and filling redwood space over redwood time, over thousands of years.
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Every character brings new light to a different part of myself, which is something I love about every role I get to play.
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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.
