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> [I often avoid using the terms 'figuration' and 'abstraction' because I've always tried to have it both ways. I want the experience of looking at one of my paintings to be similar to the process of making the painting -…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cecily-brown/i-often-avoid-using-the-terms-figuration-and-abstraction-because-i-ve/)

[Cecily Brown](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/cecily-brown/)

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## More by Cecily Brown

> [I'm not the kind of artist who has an idea and then carries it out; it's more like I find what the idea was…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cecily-brown/i-m-not-the-kind-of-artist-who-has-an-idea-and-then-carries-it-out-it/)

[Cecily Brown](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/cecily-brown/)

> [My process is really quite organic, and starting a painting is one of the best parts for me. I always start in quite a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cecily-brown/my-process-is-really-quite-organic-and-starting-a-painting-is-one-of/)

[Cecily Brown](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/cecily-brown/)

> [I have always wanted to make paintings that are impossible to walk past, paintings that grab and hold your attention. The more you look…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cecily-brown/i-have-always-wanted-to-make-paintings-that-are-impossible-to-walk/)

[Cecily Brown](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/cecily-brown/)

> [Often, I find it really hard to see what I'm doing when I'm in the thick of things. I can get too precious and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cecily-brown/often-i-find-it-really-hard-to-see-what-i-m-doing-when-i-m-in-the/)

[Cecily Brown](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/cecily-brown/)

> [When I moved to New York, I was waiting tables, painting in the daytime and working at night, and I felt it was possible…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cecily-brown/when-i-moved-to-new-york-i-was-waiting-tables-painting-in-the-daytime/)

[Cecily Brown](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/cecily-brown/)

> [I often avoid using the terms 'figuration' and 'abstraction' because I've always tried to have it both ways. I want the experience of looking…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cecily-brown/i-often-avoid-using-the-terms-figuration-and-abstraction-because-i-ve/)

[Cecily Brown](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/cecily-brown/)

> [I love the trick of painting. You can have the movement within the still thing, but it is completely fixed. And that illusion is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cecily-brown/i-love-the-trick-of-painting-you-can-have-the-movement-within-the/)

[Cecily Brown](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/cecily-brown/)

> [I've always wondered, like, what is so masculine about abstraction? How did men get the ownership over this?](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cecily-brown/i-ve-always-wondered-like-what-is-so-masculine-about-abstraction-how/)

[Cecily Brown](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/cecily-brown/)

> [I’m very interested in sublimation. I love the way Francis Bacon talked about the grin without the cat, the sensation without the boredom of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cecily-brown/i-m-very-interested-in-sublimation-i-love-the-way-francis-bacon/)

[Cecily Brown](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/cecily-brown/)

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