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

- Cecily Brown

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

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 conv…

- Cecily Brown