Peter Doig Quotes

Growing up, I never really felt like anything was my own. I moved a lot, and I never belonged anywhere.

I actually didn't think there was that many people out there who knew what it's like to not really have a home or have that home in one place.

For many years, I didn't have a home.

When you've moved 13 times, you lose track of where you're from.

A man who lives everywhere lives nowhere.

I don't really live anywhere.

Place and displacement have always been central for me. A type of insecurity goes with that: you are always following the cues, like learning the dance steps when the dance is already under way.

I literally have never lived anywhere longer than two years in my life. I never just stuck anywhere.

I kinda grew up in different places. I was just from everywhere.

I've very aware of my rootlessness.

I didn't have just one place where I could say, 'That's my home.'

I was realizing that I didn't have a home. I didn't really feel at home in one place.

I have always felt a little homeless. It's a strange thing.

I lived on a farm with cows, and I lived in the city with rats. My family stayed in Colorado for a while, then went from Los Angeles to Arizona. People would ask me where I'm from, and I would have to say, 'I don't have a clear answer for you.'

Man hath still either toys or care: But hath no root, nor to one place is tied, but ever restless and irregular, about this earth doth run and ride. He knows he hath a home, but scarce knows where; He says it is so far, that he has quite forgot how to go there.

I don't have a place that I call home at the moment because there's no point. I mean, I'm a traveling circus for a while. It's weird. Like, if I wanted to go home, there's nowhere to go. I just go to a hotel. But I've kind of gotten used to it.

Every day, it's a different country, different time zone. If you asked me where home was, I've never felt like I've had that. My idea of comfort is to leave a place. Two weeks is sort of my max.

I lived in several hotels, yeah. You have to try to make it home.

I always live in multiple places. I'm never in the same city for seven days.

By the time I was seven, my mother and I had moved 13 times.

Living with the notion that you might never have a permanent spot in the world is really quite a powerful metaphor.

By the time I was three years old, I'd lived at 10 different addresses in six different countries.

After a certain age, you couldn't even say where you were from. You went someplace, and lived there. And then you went someplace else.

Anywhere I hang my heart is home... it's just the closet that keeps moving.

I have lost all sense of home, having moved about so much. It means to me now--only that place where the books are kept.