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 -… — 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 its conveyance… I’ve always wanted to be able to convey figurative imagery in a kind of… — 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
