Cecily Brown Quotes

#1. The only solution to the issue of human rights is oblivion.

Augusto Pinochet

#2. Sebastian lay a few feet away from her, on his back. There was a great blackened hole across the front of his chest. He turned his head toward her, his face taut and white with pain, and her heart contracted.
His eyes were green.

Cassandra Clare

#3. I've been acting since age 8. I just stopped enjoying it as much as I used to.

Jack Gleeson

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

Cecily Brown

#5. 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.

Cecily Brown

#6. 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.

Cecily Brown

#7. 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.

Cecily Brown

#8. I'm always trying to make myself laugh. I'm the most enthusiastic audience I'm likely to find, so if it doesn't make me smile then it probably won't work on you. The jokes that only make me shrug get cut.

Victor LaValle

#9. Complete freedom is as much curse as boon; freedom within strict and well-defined confines is, to me, ideal.

David Byrne

#10. This was your heart
This swarm of flies
This was once your mouth
This bowl of lies
You serve them well
I'm not surprised
You're of their kin
You're of their kind

Leonard Cohen

#11. 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.

Cecily Brown

#12. 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.

Cecily Brown

#13. Believe me I don't want to set the world on fire I just want to start a flame in your heart

Elizabeth Fama

#14. FREEDOM OF SPEECH is the air that any thinker breathes; it's the fuel that ignites the fire of an intellectual's thoughts.

Raif Badawi

#15. Get Smart or Die Trying

Trizzmatic