"White paint is my marble." — Cy Twombly
"White paint is my marble."
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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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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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More Marble Quotes
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one of 253 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the soul.
— Joseph Addison
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The only time I've been arrested was in opposing the Marble Hill nuclear power plant in Indiana. That was in…
— Wendell Berry
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Life comes before literature, as the material always comes before the work. The hills are full of marble before the…
— Phillips Brooks
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In 1980, business at my company, Chuck E. Cheese's, was thriving and I was feeling flush. So I bought a…
— Nolan Bushnell
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Man cannot remake himself without suffering, for he is both the marble and the sculptor.
— Alexis Carrel
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I regard golf as an expensive way of playing marbles.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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So says the most ancient book of the Earth; thus it is written on its leaves of marble, lime, sand,…
— Johann Gottfried Herder
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How does one chip off the marble that doesn't belong? ... That comes about through five things: humility, reverence, inspiration,…
— Walter Russell
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A marble cutter, with chisel and hammer, was changing a stone into a statue. A preacher looking on said: "I…
— Arthur Tappan Pierson
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In testimony of their Respect For The Patriot of incorruptible Integrity, The Soldier of approved Valour The Statesman of consummate…
— Alexander Hamilton
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Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unshown marble of great sculpture. The silent bear no…
— Aldous Huxley
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I found Rome a city of bricks and left it a city of marble.
— Augustus
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