Cy Twombly Professions : Painter Born : April 25, 1928 Died : July 5, 2011 Browse All Authors Top 30 quotes by Cy Twombly I sit for two or three hours and then in 15 minutes I can do a painting, but that's part of it. You have to get ready and decide to jump up and do it; you build yourself up psychologically, and so painting has no time for brush. Brush is boring, you give it and all of a sudden it's dry, you have to go. Before you cut the thought, you know? Cy Twombly time inspirational art 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. Cy Twombly lines lonely feelings Every line is the actual experience with its own unique story. Cy Twombly lines unique stories I had my freedom and that was nice. Cy Twombly nice And we who have always thought of happiness climbing, would feel the emotion that almost startles when happiness falls. Cy Twombly climbing emotion fall I hate roses. Don't you? It's all right if you can hide them in a cutting garden, but I think a rose garden is the height of ick. Cy Twombly cutting garden hate When I work, I work very fast, but preparing to work can take any length of time. Cy Twombly length preparation art 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. Cy Twombly liberty done taken I never really separated painting and literature. Cy Twombly painting literature Paint is something that I use with my hands and do all those tactile things. I really don't like oil because you can't get back into it, or you make a mess. It's not my favourite thing - pencil is more my medium than wet paint. Cy Twombly oil use hands I would’ve liked to have been Poussin, if I’d had a choice, in another time. Cy Twombly another-time has-beens choices I love my sculptures, and I was lucky I had them for 50 years because no one would look at them and I really liked having them around. Cy Twombly lucky looks years I listed to Tchaikovsky. He is both kitsch and profound. I love that lack of "Good taste." Cy Twombly tchaikovsky kitsch profound 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. Cy Twombly graffiti wall writing I used to change things in my early paintings to get the nuance or feeling I wanted, but now I plan everything in my head before I do it. Cy Twombly feeling everything things change Graffiti is usually a protest - ink on walls - or has a reason for being naughty or aggressive. Cy Twombly walls being naughty reason I don't work 9 to 5. Cy Twombly work White paint is my marble. Cy Twombly marble paint white I was brought up to think you don't talk about yourself. Cy Twombly yourself talk think you I work in an impatient way. Cy Twombly impatient work way Similar Authors Barry McGee painter Brion Gysin painter Bridget Riley painter Boris Vallejo painter Allan Kaprow painter Augustus John painter All Authors
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