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 to be about that, but it has to have that journey; I have to learn something,… — 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
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
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
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
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
There are things that inform the works, but that doesn't go anywhere near what you're actually looking at. — Nigel Cooke Copy Share
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
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
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
