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…

— Cecily Brown

My process is really quite organic, and starting a painting is one of the best parts for me. I always start in…

— Cecily Brown

I have always wanted to make paintings that are impossible to walk past, paintings that grab and hold your attention. The more…

— 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…

— Cecily Brown

When I moved to New York, I was waiting tables, painting in the daytime and working at night, and I felt it…

— 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…

— Cecily Brown

I love the trick of painting. You can have the movement within the still thing, but it is completely fixed. And that…

— Cecily Brown

I've always wondered, like, what is so masculine about abstraction? How did men get the ownership over this?

— 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…

— Cecily Brown