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

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Source : "Peter Doig: the outsider comes home". Interview with Stuart Jeffries, www.theguardian.com. September 5, 2012.

Peter Doig

#Interesting Quotes #Perfection Quotes #Perfect Quotes

“Music is the silence between the notes.”
“He ordered Ronan to put on some terrible music--Ronan was always too happy to oblige in this department--and then he abused the Camaro at every stoplight on the way out of town. "Put your back into it!" Gansey shouted breathlessly. He was talking to himself, of course, or to the gearbox. "Don't let it smell fear on you!" Blue wailed each time the engine revved up, but not unhappily. Noah played the drums on the back of Ronan's headrest. Adam, for his part, was not wild, but he did his best not to appear unwild, so as not to ruin it for the others.”
“I vary my days between skiing and snowboarding - I can go fast down pisted runs but still struggle in the bumps on a snowboard.”
“Beauty can be seen in all things......”
“People say 'Scott's [Derrickson] movies are kind of scary, is this a horror movie?' Of course, [Doctor Strange] it's not a horror movie. But what Scott has done so well in the best of his films is have one foot completely in the real world and one foot in this whatever supernatural sub-genre he was playing with.”

Source : Source: screenrant.com
“Find people who will make you better.”
“...we must learn -once again- to regard Islam as the norm by which the world is to be judged.”
“I'm not a super prolific creator, I don't make stuff everyday, and I don't have a soundtrack constantly playing in my head. I think I had years and years of pent-up aesthetic ideas that I wanted to express.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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