Cy Twombly
Cy Twombly
Edwin Parker "Cy" Twombly, Jr.was an American painter, sculptor and photographer. He belonged to the generation of Robert Rauschenberg and Jasper Johns but made the specific choice to live in Europeafter 1957...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPainter
Date of Birth25 April 1928
CountryUnited States of America
cutting two giving
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?
I have my pace and way of living, and I'm not looking for something.
To my mind, one does not put oneself in place of the past; one only adds a new link.
change early head nuance paintings
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.
art suppose
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.
ink protest
Graffiti is usually a protest - ink on walls - or has a reason for being naughty or aggressive.
Graffiti is linear, and it's done with a pencil, and it's like writing on walls.
paintings
It's absurd to talk about paintings that you haven't finished.
good kept
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?'
The Mediterranean is always just white, white, white.
I swear if I had to do this over again, I would just do the paintings and never show them.
I was brought up to think you don't talk about yourself.