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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

Topics: Always Attention Back Become Get Give Grab Hold Impossible Look Make More Painting Paintings Past Satisfying Them Time Viewer Walk Wanted You Your

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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

Topics: Artist Carries Doing Find Idea Kind Like More Out Paintings Then Through Who

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I often avoid using the terms 'figuration' and 'abstraction' because I've always tried to have it both ways. I want the experience of looking at one of my paintings to be similar to the process of making the painting - you go from the big picture to something very intense and detailed, and then back again.

~Cecily Brown

Topics: Abstraction Again Always Avoid Back Because Big Big Picture Both Both Ways Detailed Experience Go Intense Looking Making Often Painting Paintings Picture Process Similar Something Terms Then Tried Using Very Want Ways You

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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

Topics: Always Begin Best Colour Down Free Ground Loose Me Off Often Organic Painting Parts Play Process Put Quite Really Start Starting Then Way

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Often, I find it really hard to see what I'm doing when I'm in the thick of things. I can get too precious and have to force myself to put my paintings aside. There's a wall in my studio where I hang paintings that I think are done or nearly done. Over time, I'll realise which ones are working and which aren't.

~Cecily Brown

Topics: Aside Doing Done Find Force Get Hang Hard Myself Nearly Often Over Paintings Precious Put Realise Really See Studio Thick Things Think Time Too Wall Where Which Working I Think I Can

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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

Topics: About Balance Daytime Felt Find Get Just Moved New New York Night Painting Possible Tables Waiting Working York

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Biography

Nationality: British

Type: Artist

Born: Unknown

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