"As an artist, you are aware there is this strange money market out there, but you have no sense of how it works."

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Source : "Record painter". Interview with Tim Adams, www.theguardian.com. January 27, 2008.

Peter Doig

#Artist Quotes #Strange Quotes

“Once we overcome our fear of being tiny, we find ourselves on the threshold of a vast and awesome Universe that utterly dwarfs â€” in time, in space, and in potential â€” the tidy anthropocentric proscenium of our ancestors.”
“I'm 5 feet 7 but my legs weren't long enough to be a big-time model. From the knees up, everything is long but from ankle to knee, if I was in proportion, I'd be 5 feet 9”
“Nobody ever invents anything You're inspired and sometimes you can improve.”
“A so-called 'blackout' is yet another gimmick, albeit a dangerous one, designed to punish elected and administration officials who are working diligently to protect American jobs from foreign criminals,”
“It would be hard to find a more compelling example of the American dream than Alberto Gonzales.”

Source : Source: www.biblicalarchaeology.org
“Precision is not one of the qualities that comes out in my work.”
“Iâ€™m very attracted to things that I canâ€™t define.”
“I want to convince you that these kinds of personal explanations of success don't work. People don't rise from nothing....It is only by asking where they are from that we can unravel the logic behind who succeeds and who doesn't.”

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