"Graffiti is linear and it's done with a……" — 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."
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19 Quotes by Cy Twombly
Cy Twombly has 19 quotes on this site.
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When I work, I work very fast, but preparing to work can take any length of time.
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I sit for two or three hours and then in 15 minutes I can do a painting, but that's part…
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I would’ve liked to have been Poussin, if I’d had a choice, in another time
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I had my freedom and that was nice
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I work in waves, because I'm impatient. Because of a certain physicality, of lack of breath from standing. It has…
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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…
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And we who have always thought of happiness climbing, would feel the emotion that almost startles when happiness falls.
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I love my sculptures, and I was lucky I had them for 50 years because no one would look at…
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I hate roses. Don't you? It's all right if you can hide them in a cutting garden, but I think…
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I never really separated painting and literature.
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The Mediterranean is always just white, white, white.
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I work in an impatient way.
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More Graffiti Quotes
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Bursts of gold on lavender melting into saffron. It's the time of day when the sky looks like it has…
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Out there, in the world, all the walls were covered with graffiti: Yids, go back to Palestine, so we came…
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Is graffiti art or vandalism? That word has a lot of negative connotations and it alienates people, so no, I…
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T.V. has made going to the theatre seem pointless, photography has pretty much killed painting but graffiti has remained gloriously…
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Bus stops are far more interesting and useful places to have art than in museums. Graffiti has more chance of…
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When absolutes are abandoned for principles, the U.S. Constitution becomes a blank slate for anyone’s graffiti.
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Aristotelian logic is massive and marmoreal, but every monument accumulates graffiti.
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Nobody ever listened to me until they didn't know who I was
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The way I make art, the way a lot of people make art, is as an extension of language and…
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I've never really considered myself just a street artist. I consider myself a populist.
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Art shows and the institutions end up being the couriers for culture for the next generation and are an important…
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