Cecily Brown famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

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

#Men #Ownership #Masculine
Iâ€™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 conveyanceâ€¦ Iâ€™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
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

The essence of trade unionism is social uplift. The labor movement has been the haven for the dispossessed, the despised, the neglected, the downtrodden, the poor.
When I joined the Communist movement in 1935 it was based upon the belief that mankind's future was to be found there. Certainly, millions who joined it the world over, like myself, didn't join it for profit.
Painting is self-discovery. You arrive at the image through the act of painting.
When I'm traveling the world, I don't ever look anymore at the geography - just enough to catch galleries and paintings.
In Holland, everyone is an expert in painting and in tulips.
He best can paint them who shall feel them most.
I always start a painting with the sky.
Time is an illusion.
Balance every thought with its opposition. Because the marriage of them is the destruction of illusion.
I see the world as an illusion, and we shouldn't take ourselves so seriously

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