Quote by Cy Twombly Download Open image “I'm not an abstractionist completely.” — Cy Twombly ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.9 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare
I still believe in abstraction, but now I know that one ends with abstraction, not starts with it — Alexander Stepanov Copy Share Image
Abstraction is an exercise in a pre-assured failure. It is a futile attempt to communicate the non-communicable — Derek R. Audette Copy Share Image
Abstraction is a mental process we use when trying to discern what is essential or relevant to a problem; it does not require a… — Tom G. Palmer Copy Share Image
I don't like the word 'abstractions' very much because most people don't think in abstractions. That is too difficult for them. They think in… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
Abstraction generally involves implication, suggestion and mystery, rather than obvious description. — Robert Genn Copy Share Image
To be an abstraction does not mean that an entity is nothing. It merely means that its existence is only a factor of a… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
To arrive at abstraction, it is always necessary to begin with a concrete reality. — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
Our lives don't make sense in abstraction, only when compared with the lives of others. — Maria Konnikova Copy Share Image
In the development of the understanding of complex phenomena, the most powerful tool available to the human intellect is abstraction. Abstraction arises from the… — Tony Hoare Copy Share Image
I would’ve liked to have been Poussin, if I’d had a choice, in another time — Cy Twombly Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Graffiti is usually a protest - ink on walls - or has a reason for being naughty or aggressive. — Cy Twombly Copy Share Image
I swear if I had to do this over again, I would just do the paintings and never show them. — Cy Twombly Copy Share Image
To my mind, one does not put oneself in place of the past; one only adds a new link. — Cy Twombly Copy Share Image
