Cecily Brown Quotes

• 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

  Movement, Painting, Illusion

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

  Cecily Brown

  Men, Ownership, Masculine

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• 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 shorthand, to get it across in as direct a way as possible. I want there to be a human presence without having to depict it in full.

  Cecily Brown

  Cat, Boredom, Want

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