Cecily Brown Quotes

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

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#2. 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 through doing the paintings.

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#3. I have always wanted to make paintings that are impossible to walk past, paintings that grab and hold your attention. The more you look at them, the more satisfying they become for the viewer. The more time you give to the painting, the more you get back.

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#4. When I moved to New York, I was waiting tables, painting in the daytime and working at night, and I felt it was possible to find a balance and just about get by.

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#5. 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 play off that.

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#6. I love the trick of painting. You can have the movement within the still thing, but it is completely fixed. And that illusion is constantly exciting.

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