Cecily Brown Artist Quotes & Sayings

There are no black holes in the sense of regimes from which light can't escape to infinity. — Stephen Hawking

Can these foods [low-fat, vitamin-enriched, etc] even be called "healthy"? Perhaps we should think about it this way: If you cut a batch of pharmaceutical-grade cocaine with chai, you could say with some degree of honesty that it is "healthier," "less addictive," and "now with chai!" But would you say it's "good for you"? — Mark Schatzker

Controlling carbon is a bureaucrat's dream. If you control carbon, you control life. — Richard Lindzen

In a lot of ways, Mom is kind of badass. — Sarah Bird

I don't read for amusement, I read for enlightenment. I do a lot of reviewing, so I have a steady assignment of reading. I'm also a judge for the Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards, which gives awards to literature and nonfiction. — Joyce Carol Oates

I know that [Mike] Tyson talked about wanting to eat his opponent's children, but I don't think he ever had the balls to do it. I'm different - when I kidnapped Bill Lawrence's daughter, I cut off all of her fingers before sending my demands so that I wouldn't have to sit there and wait for him to ignore them. We worked things about about nine hours in, which is good because I ate her thumb as a midnight snack. — Zach Braff

For me, I was in school and I pushed myself to be a good student, just because that's the type of person I was, but I never had a connection to any of it. I don't think my brain functioned in a way that was at its height, when I was in school. I needed something like art to really value the way my mind works. I wasn't reaching my full potential by sitting in a classroom and reading from a book. My mind didn't work that way. — Misty Copeland

The worst thing for an effective war on terror is the suspicion of states about the objectives. — Hamid Karzai

Is it a bad sign when the thought of your x-girlfriend makes you say things like, Satan is a myth ... I guess. — Dov Davidoff

Myths are wonderful - they really tell the stories that connect all of us and teach us so much. — Jeff Bridges

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