“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.” ThinkingKnowsEndsJourneyPaintingAbsenceEvolveAbstraction 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.” MindLittlesLightActionBitsPaintingInternetPhotographSettingSettingsPropsTime 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.” WorldWayPersonsArtMiddleFieldsQuietStudiosSheepArt WorldFlashyMiddle Of NowhereQuiet 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.” KnowsWayStillsObjectsStrangePaintingPaintPortraits 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.” MomentsPerfectRight Now Author:Nigel Cooke
“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?” IfsEndsGovernmentPoliticalCoursesPoliticsConstitutionFoundationCongressGravityProvisionUsurpation 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."” SaidFunnyLastsNightRealizingWonderComedyBloodSightStaringAbortionBlankLast NightRabbiStand Up ComedyCircumcisionBlank Stares Author:Ben Rosenfield
“In order to make a movie it isn't enough to have a script, it isn't enough to have a director, it isn't enough to have a male actor and a female actor, it isn't enough to have financing. You have to have them all at the same instant.” EnoughOrderActorsDirectorsFemaleMalesScriptsInstantFinancing Author:Lester Persky
“I don't really sit in the sun I have a flagstone terrace surrounding the swimming pool and just carrying the script from the office to the living room gives me an instant suntan.” GivingRoomsSunOfficeGive MeScriptsInstantSwimmingPoolLiving RoomSwimming PoolTerrace Author:Lester Persky