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
funny grew
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.'
ink protest
Graffiti is usually a protest - ink on walls - or has a reason for being naughty or aggressive.
paintings
It's absurd to talk about paintings that you haven't finished.
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.
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?
nice
I had my freedom and that was nice
unique lines stories
Every line is the actual experience with its own unique story.
lonely feelings lines
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.
art length preparing
When I work, I work very fast, but preparing to work can take any length of time.
fall climbing emotion
And we who have always thought of happiness climbing, would feel the emotion that almost startles when happiness falls.
choices has-beens ifs
I would’ve liked to have been Poussin, if I’d had a choice, in another time
hate cutting garden
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.
wall writing done
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.
taken liberty done
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.