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  • Painter
  • 1928 - 2011
  • 20 quotes

Cy Twombly, a painter (1928 - 2011), is quoted 20 times on QuoteForever. The subjects that come up most often are Paintings, Walls, Smile and Cutting.

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White paint is my marble.

I work in an impatient way.

Virginia is a good start for Italy.

The Mediterranean is always just white, white, white.

I was brought up to think you don't talk about yourself.

It's absurd to talk about paintings that you haven't finished.

I have my pace and way of living, and I'm not looking for something.

I would've liked to have been Poussin, if I'd had a choice, in another time.

Graffiti is linear, and it's done with a pencil, and it's like writing on walls.

When I work, I work very fast, but preparing to work can take any length of time.

To my mind, one does not put oneself in place of the past; one only adds a new link.

I swear if I had to do this over again, I would just do the paintings and never show them.

Graffiti is usually a protest - ink on walls - or has a reason for being naughty or aggressive.

My parents were from New England. It's very funny, but when I grew up, you always had to say, 'Yes, ma'am' and 'Yes, sir.'

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.

Once I said to my mother: 'You would be happy if I just kept well-dressed and had good manners,' and she said: 'What else is there?'

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.

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.

I look at a lot of artists. I'm inspired by - I suppose I shouldn't say 'inspired,' but it's not really influenced. I am inspired. Art comes from art.

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?

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