Good taste Quote by Cy Twombly

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

— Cy Twombly

White paint is my marble.

— 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…

— 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…

— Cy Twombly

I had my freedom and that was nice

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— Cy Twombly

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

— Cy Twombly

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

— Cy Twombly

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

— Cy Twombly