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.
Peter DoigAs an artist, you are aware there is this strange money market out there, but you have no sense of how it works.
Peter DoigIt's still an escape for me, painting, so it also takes me elsewhere. I don't think I would do it otherwise.
Peter DoigI'm not one of those artists having people there lying around on their paintings, you know, like Hockney or whoever.
Peter Doig