"I work in waves, because I'm impatient. Because……" — 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."
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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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Graffiti is linear and it's done with a pencil, and it's like writing on walls. But in my paintings it's…
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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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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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It would be an egregious mistake to ever refer to me in the same breath as most of the people…
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His heart was like a sensitive plant, that opens for a moment in the sunshine, but curls up and shrinks…
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If someone offers you a breath mint, accept it.
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Our grandfathers had to run, run, run. My generation's out of breath. We ain't running no more.
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