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“I felt like I had reached the end of a period of life, where the work was jumping about and pushing something new every time. I wanted to dial it back and create a language that was stable and deep.”

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Nigel Cooke

Nigel Cooke, born on August 22, 1957, is an individual whose identity and profession are not yet known. more

“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, I have to end up somewhere I didn't expect to be, otherwise, I don't think it's painting.”

Thinking Knows Ends Journey Painting Absence Evolve Abstraction

Author: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 it's a bit like a little movie each time - how do I get the props, the setting, the time of day, the light, the action.”

Mind Littles Light Action Bits Painting Internet Photograph Setting Settings Props Time Of Day

Author: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. The work has to be authentic in that way.”

World Way Persons Art Middle Fields Quiet Studios Sheep Art World Flashy Middle Of Nowhere Quiet Person

Author: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 it weird, just make it dead straight," but it's still weird. I don't know why. I guess it's just the way I see things.”

Knows Way Stills Objects Strange Painting Paint Portraits

Author: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 fumbling.”

Moments Perfect Right Now

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

Author:Nigel Cooke

“Questions of such gravity go down to the very foundations of the government. If the provisions of the Constitution can be set aside by an act of Congress, where is the course of usurpation to end?”

Ifs Ends Government Political Courses Politics Constitution Foundation Congress Gravity Provision Usurpation

Author:Stephen Johnson Field

“Last night I didn't realize I said "abortion" in my stand up comedy act instead of "circumcision." No wonder I got blank stares at "rabbi got faint at sight of blood."”

Said Funny Lasts Night Realizing Wonder Comedy Blood Sight Staring Abortion Blank Last Night Rabbi Stand Up Comedy Circumcision Blank Stares

Author:Ben Rosenfield

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