Books Quote by Cy Twombly Download Open image “I never really separated painting and literature.” — Cy Twombly ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.5 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Books Inspirational Literature Love Painting
The best painting is totally non-narrative. It doesn't have to tell you a story. — Peter Greenaway Copy Share Image
Each painting is its own world, but a lot of times I do see the paintings as one page from a story. You can… — Neil Farber Copy Share Image
Painting relates to both art and life. Neither can be made - I try to act in the gap. — Robert Rauschenberg 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
I think a new world will arise out of the religious mists when we approach our Bible with the idea that it is not… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
If I had a dollar for every time I couldn’t sleep, I could buy a billion locks and finally read a book in peace. — Aesop Rock Copy Share Image
If what I write is literature, I guess you'd better emphasize the 'litter.' — Lydia Lunch Copy Share Image
My sentences got sharper and my stories more efficient, and I gradually learned to imagine the reader more clearly and to empathize with that… — Karen Thompson Walker Copy Share Image
Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who… — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
“Within the pages of books, I've journeyed to Mandalay, the Milky Way and Santa Fe, without once having to leave my armchair.” — Kevin Ansbro Copy Share Image
“Tacitus did not write a most dangerous book. His readers made it so.” — Christopher K. Krebs Copy Share Image
“Take some books and read; that’s an immense help; and books are always good company if you have the right sort.” — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
Reader, if you are gifted with nerves like mine, aspire to any character but that of a wit. — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
I have many who keep me going, I am very fortunate in this sense. There is nothing like a child who knows more about… — Floyd Cooper Copy Share Image
I think books in which people are really happy and things are going well are probably the most challenging novels there are to write,… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
