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Peter Doig Quotes

It's not about perfection. What's a perfect painting? What's interesting about a perfect painting?

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: artist
Nationality: scottish
Birth: 1959

Topics

Perfection Painting Interesting About

Jazz and poetry both involve a structure that may be familiar and to some extent predictable. And then, you try to create as much surprise and spontaneity and feeling and variation while respecting that structure.

Poetry Surprise You Create Jazz Try

Write every day even if it is just a paragraph.

Michael Connelly

Day Every Day Write Just Paragraph

The first time I heard Jack Teagarden on the trombone, I had goose pimples all over.

Louis Armstrong

Time First Time First Over Goose

O, how glorious would it be to set my heel upon the Pole and turn myself 360 degrees in a second!

Myself Turn Glorious Would Set How

One of my favorite modern American authors is Denis Johnson. I'm deeply inspired by all of his work - I rip him off constantly.

Work American Him Inspired Modern

I'm wondering when you hit the age where people say, 'Oh, OK, he's not so young.'

Age People You Young Say People Say

Sometimes it used to hurt so bad when people used to say stuff about me. It still does. But I'm at a level now that I'm like, 'I ain't surprised that they said this or that about me.'

People Me Hurt Bad Said Sometimes

I think the most productive thing to do during times of change is to be your best self, not the best version of someone else.

Change Best Think Self Someone Your

I wanted to understand the secrets behind my chemical experiments and behind the processes in nature.

Nature Secrets Understand Experiments

The naked thing was short-lived. It was only around for about six months because we thought it was shocking. Once people expected us to do it we kind of never did it again.

People Thought Kind Never Naked Us

When I was 16, I went to Berlin - West Berlin, since at that time a wall still divided the city - to live for three months with a family on an exchange program.

Family Live Time City Wall Three

I'm dense when it comes to discouragement.

Discouragement Dense

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