Artist Quotes by Nigel Cooke

I'm a quiet person, I'm not a flashy art world person. I'm in the studio in the middle of nowhere. There's sheep and fields.…

— Nigel Cooke

The paintings are kind of set in the past, present, and future all at once.

— Nigel Cooke

Using painting as a metaphor for consciousness is what I'm interested in.

— Nigel Cooke

The paintings don't exist outside themselves. There's no lead photograph off the internet or anything like that. It all comes from my mind and…

— Nigel Cooke

The moment is never perfect. It's like that right now - in my head I'm being super lucid, but you never are. You're always…

— Nigel Cooke

There are certain times when a painting accelerates beyond you, and you have to try and understand and catch up with it.

— Nigel Cooke

Small thoughts grow into a picture. It may suggest an individual or it may suggest a place, but generally the painting's job is to…

— Nigel Cooke

There are things that inform the works, but that doesn't go anywhere near what you're actually looking at.

— Nigel Cooke

I felt like I had reached the end of a period of life, where the work was jumping about and pushing something new every…

— Nigel Cooke

What really surprised me was how strange my paintings are anyway. To me, it's like, "Let's paint some portraits and some objects. Don't make…

— Nigel Cooke

There are absences, but there are also presences. It's about how painting can evolve its own abstractions. I didn't know the painting was going…

— Nigel Cooke