Top 33 Quotes & Sayings by Cy Twombly

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Last updated on September 17, 2024.

Edwin Parker "Cy" Twombly Jr. was an American painter, sculptor and photographer. He belonged to the generation of Robert Rauschenberg and Jasper Johns.

American - Artist | April 25, 1928 - July 5, 2011

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I look at a lot of artists. I'm inspired by - I suppose I shouldn't say 'inspired,' but it's not really influenced. I am inspired. Art comes from art.

Cy Twombly

Once I said to my mother: 'You would be happy if I just kept well-dressed and had good manners,' and she said: 'What else is there?'

Cy Twombly

I have my pace and way of living, and I'm not looking for something.

Cy Twombly

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

Graffiti is usually a protest - ink on walls - or has a reason for being naughty or aggressive.

Cy Twombly

I'm not an abstractionist completely.

Cy Twombly

My parents were from New England. It's very funny, but when I grew up, you always had to say, 'Yes, ma'am' and 'Yes, sir.'

Cy Twombly

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

I was brought up to think you don't talk about yourself.

Cy Twombly

I would've liked to have been Poussin, if I'd had a choice, in another time.

Cy Twombly

I used to change things in my early paintings to get the nuance or feeling I wanted, but now I plan everything in my head before I do it.

Cy Twombly

To my mind, one does not put oneself in place of the past; one only adds a new link.

Cy Twombly

Graffiti is linear, and it's done with a pencil, and it's like writing on walls.

Cy Twombly

The Mediterranean is always just white, white, white.

Cy Twombly

Virginia is a good start for Italy.

Cy Twombly

It's absurd to talk about paintings that you haven't finished.

Cy Twombly

I work in an impatient way.

Cy Twombly

I swear if I had to do this over again, I would just do the paintings and never show them.

Cy Twombly

I don't work 9 to 5.

Cy Twombly

White paint is my marble.

Cy Twombly

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

Cy Twombly

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

Cy Twombly

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

Cy Twombly

I never really separated painting and literature.

Cy Twombly

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

I had my freedom and that was nice.

Cy Twombly

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

Cy Twombly

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

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

Cy Twombly

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

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

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

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

Top 33 Quotes & Sayings by Cy Twombly

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