Cy Twombly Quotes - click name for biography
· 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
· My line is childlike but not childish. It is very difficult to fake.. to get that quality you need to project yourself into the child's line. It has to be felt.
- Cy Twombly
· 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
· 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
· When I work, I work very fast, but preparing to work can take any length of time.
- Cy Twombly
· 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
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