Cy Twombly Quotes

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I'm drawn to the primitive, the ritual and fetish elements.

Cy Twombly

For myself the past is the source (for all art is vitally contemporary).

Cy Twombly

When I work I work very fast, but preparing the work can take any length.

Cy Twombly

I think of myself as a Romantic Symbolist.

Cy Twombly

To paint involves a certain crisis, or at least a crucial moment of sensation or release. By crisis by no means limited to a morbid state, but could just as easily be an ecstatic impulse.

Cy Twombly

I work in waves because I'm impatient. It has to be done. I take liberties.

Cy Twombly

I knew a poet who was totally ignorant about botany. And I said: you can't be a poet without knowing any botany or plants and things like that; it's impossible, that's the first thing you should know.

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Each line is now the actual experience with its own innate history. It does not illustrate — it is the sensation of its own realization. [a written art note by Twombly on a painting he created in 1957].

Cy Twombly

Cy Twombly

Cy Twombly

Born: April 25, 1928

Died: July 5, 2011 (aged 83)

Bio: Edwin Parker "Cy" Twombly, Jr. was an American painter, sculptor and photographer. He belonged to the generation of Robert Rauschenberg and Jasper Johns but chose to live in Italy after 1957.

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