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A true batsman should in most of his strokes tell the truth about himself.

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Nigel Cooke

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 work that [idea] into an abstract proposition that is completely removed from the starting point.

Ideas, Jobs, May, Point, Thoughts, Work
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The paintings are kind of set in the past, present, and future all at once.

Future, Kind, Painting, Past, Set

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.

Like, Lucid, Moment, Moments, Perfect, Right Now

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.

Make, Portraits, Strange, Way

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.

Art, Sheep, Work, World

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.

Light, Littles, Mind, Movie, Setting
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