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Cy Twombly Quotes

American-Italian painter, Birth: 25-4-1928, Death: 5-7-2011
1.
I sit for two or three hours and then in 15 minutes I can do a painting, but that's part of it. You have to get ready and decide to jump up and do it; you build yourself up psychologically, and so painting has no time for brush. Brush is boring, you give it and all of a sudden it's dry, you have to go. Before you cut the thought, you know?
Cy Twombly

2.
It's instinctive in a certain kind of painting...It's like a nervous system. It's not described, it's happening. The feeling is going on with the task. The line is the feeling, from a soft thing, a dreamy thing, to something hard, something arid, something lonely, something ending, something beginning.
Cy Twombly

3.
Every line is the actual experience with its own unique story.
Cy Twombly

4.
I had my freedom and that was nice.
Cy Twombly

5.
When I work, I work very fast, but preparing to work can take any length of time.
Cy Twombly

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6.
And we who have always thought of happiness climbing, would feel the emotion that almost startles when happiness falls.
Cy Twombly

7.
I hate roses. Don't you? It's all right if you can hide them in a cutting garden, but I think a rose garden is the height of ick.
Cy Twombly

8.
I never really separated painting and literature.
Cy Twombly

Quote Topics by Cy Twombly: Art Lines Choices Painting Use Garden Lonely Graffiti Hate Writing Done Stories Kitsch Climbing Lucky Emotion Years Length Has Beens Literature Oil Time Hands Inspirational Cutting Feelings Wall Liberty Unique Tchaikovsky
9.
I work in waves, because I'm impatient. Because of a certain physicality, of lack of breath from standing. It has to be done and I do take liberties I wouldn't have taken before.
Cy Twombly

10.
Paint is something that I use with my hands and do all those tactile things. I really don't like oil because you can't get back into it, or you make a mess. It's not my favourite thing - pencil is more my medium than wet paint.
Cy Twombly

11.
I would’ve liked to have been Poussin, if I’d had a choice, in another time.
Cy Twombly

12.
I listed to Tchaikovsky. He is both kitsch and profound. I love that lack of "Good taste."
Cy Twombly

13.
I love my sculptures, and I was lucky I had them for 50 years because no one would look at them and I really liked having them around.
Cy Twombly

14.
Graffiti is linear and it's done with a pencil, and it's like writing on walls. But in my paintings it's more lyrical.
Cy Twombly