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 it weird, just make it dead straight," but it's still weird. I don't know why. I… — Nigel Cooke Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The paintings are kind of set in the past, present, and future all at once. — Nigel Cooke Copy Share Image
Using painting as a metaphor for consciousness is what I'm interested in. — Nigel Cooke Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
There are certain times when a painting accelerates beyond you, and you have to try and understand and catch up with it. — Nigel Cooke Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
There are things that inform the works, but that doesn't go anywhere near what you're actually looking at. — Nigel Cooke Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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