Peter Doig Quotes

The role of art is to make a world which can be inhabited.

The delight we find in art amounts to recognition of a saving grace, to an acknowledgment that the problem of life has a solution implicit in its own nature, though not yet formulated by the intellect.

If art is not to be life-enhancing, what is it to be?

Art to be art must soothe.

A picture, to be an interesting picture, must be more than a picture, otherwise it is only a reproduction of an object, and not an object of value in itself.

Whatever you do in life, there's content and form; only those two put together create special meaning of a great work of art or great interpretation of music or a great story that you tell.

Fine art is knowledge made visible.

The key to good art is to make something that means something to you.

Film is an incredible way to express yourself and your vision, as is fashion, but you have to make sure [to] be confident and honest and true to yourself and say something that means something, because that is really the point of any art.

I don't think the audience goes and thinks of the movie as a piece of art - there are some independent people who may go and have a higher appreciation for filmmaking. It is a great art form, but I don't think you look at a painting and a movie with the same eye.

I see no reason for painting anything that can be put into any other form as well.

Art is a means to function thoroughly and passionately in a world that has a lot more to it than paint.

a work that intends to be art must first be entertaining.

Because of their origin and purpose, the meanings of art are of a different order from the operational meanings of science and technics: they relate, not to external means and consequences, but to internal transformations, and unless it produce these internal transformations the work of art is either perfunctory or dead.

Art can excite, titillate, please, entertain, and sometimes shock; but its ultimate function is to ennoble.

When people say, 'I don't get art' ... that means art is working.

Send anyone claiming that their RPG activity is an art form my way, and I'll gladly stick a pin in their head and deflate it just to have the satisfaction of the popping sound that makes. One might play a game artfully, but that makes neither the game nor its play art.

Art has a unique capacity to take one or other facet of the message and translate it into colors, shapes and sounds which nourish the intuition of those who look and listen.

Art is the response to the demand for entertainment, for the stimulation of our senses and imagination, and truth enters into it only as it subserves these ends.

The end-purpose of all art is enjoyment!

The purpose of all art is to cause a deep and emotion, also one that is entertaining or pleasing. Out of the depth and entertainment comes value.

The mediator of the inexpressible is the work of art.

Art indeed is a term referring to the social source and to the social utility of creative acts.

Art is something that opens up and enhances your emotions and that's what I like to think I'm doing.

True artistic expression lies in conveying emotion.