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Language is not made to be believed but to be obeyed, and to compel obedience newspapers, news, proceed by redundancy, in that they tell us what we ‘must’ think, retain, expect, etc. language is neither informational nor communicational. It is not the communication of information but something quite different: the transmission of order-words, either from one statement to another or within each statement, insofar as each statement accomplishes an act and the act is accomplished in the statement

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Peter Doig

I constantly have to negotiate with my doubts.

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Painting doesn't have a function, not in the way that music or film does. . . I mean, you can dance to music. Music can be used for a soundtrack, so it has a function in that sense, beyond itself. But painting doesn't. . . But I do believe that painting has a purpose.

Believe, Mean, Doe, Film, Soundtrack

Seeing a play, listening to music - you'll always contextualize it in your own way. Whoever you are, wherever you are; I think that's really important.

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A photo is like a map, a way of giving me a foot into a kind of reality I want. . . I'm not trying to make paintings look like photos. I want to make paintings using photos as a reference, the way painters did when photography was first invented.

Feet, Look, Paintings, Photography, Photos, Reality

Painting becomes interesting when it becomes timeless.

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I also learned that you are affected by your environment, even if you try not to be. Color, light that is, matters because you want to do justice to it and also you get excited by it.

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