"It's instinctive in a certain kind of painting...It's……" — Cy Twombly
"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 going on with the task. The line is the feeling, from a soft thing, a dreamy thing, to something hard, something arid, something lonely, something ending, something beginning."
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Cy Twombly
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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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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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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 Arid Quotes
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There is no spot of ground, however arid, bare or ugly, that cannot be tamed into such a state as…
— Gertrude Jekyll
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Many who have never had an opportunity of knowing any more about mathematics confound it with arithmetic, and consider it…
— Sofia Kovalevskaya
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If we use our fuel to get our power, we are living on our capital and exhausting it rapidly. This…
— Nikola Tesla
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Some of us who live in arid parts of the world think about water with a reverence others might find…
— Joan Didion
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A philosopher always finds more grass to feed upon in the valleys of stupidity than on the arid heights of…
— Ludwig Wittgenstein
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In this arid wilderness of steel and stone I raise up my voice that you may hear. To the East…
— Anton Szandor LaVey
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The will to win... the will to achieve...goes dry and arid without continuous renewal.
— Vince Lombardi
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I've had the hat for four years and it keeps getting better with age. It's been in the ocean and…
— Andy Spade
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Prayer cannot bring water to parched fields, or mend a broken bridge, or rebuild a ruined city; but prayer can…
— Abraham Joshua Heschel
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Even though one is well advanced in virtue, should he stop mortifying himself, he soon would lose his modesty and…
— John Climacus
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I grew up in the suburbs of Sydney, an arid kind of place, but every day I took the ferry…
— Pamela Stephenson
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Crossing over mountains, rivers, arid oceans, setting at naught, as it were, the obstacles of the distance of space and…
— Swami Vivekananda
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