My process is really quite organic, and starting a painting is one of the best parts for me. I always start in quite a loose and free way. I often put down one ground colour to begin with and then… — Cecily Brown Copy Share Image
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… — Cecily Brown Copy Share Image
My process is really quite organic, and starting a painting is one of the best parts for me. I always start in quite a… — Cecily Brown Copy Share Image
I have always wanted to make paintings that are impossible to walk past, paintings that grab and hold your attention. The more you look… — Cecily Brown Copy Share Image
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… — Cecily Brown Copy Share Image
When I moved to New York, I was waiting tables, painting in the daytime and working at night, and I felt it was possible… — Cecily Brown Copy Share Image
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… — Cecily Brown Copy Share Image
I love the trick of painting. You can have the movement within the still thing, but it is completely fixed. And that illusion is… — Cecily Brown Copy Share Image
I've always wondered, like, what is so masculine about abstraction? How did men get the ownership over this? — Cecily Brown Copy Share Image
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… — Cecily Brown Copy Share Image
