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.
Nigel CookeThere are things that inform the works, but that doesn't go anywhere near what you're actually looking at.
Nigel CookeI'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.
Nigel CookeThe 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.
Nigel Cooke