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Cy Twombly was an American painter known for his unique style and abstract expressionist works. His paintings often feature spontaneous scribbles, graffiti, and text, blended with natural elements. Born on April 25, 1928, he passed away on July 5, 2011.

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Famous Cy Twombly Quotes

“Each line is now the actual experience with its own innate history. It does not illustrate—it is the sensation of its own realization.”

Art Painting Drawing

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“I never really separated painting and literature.”

Literature Painting

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“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.”

Use Hands Paint Oil Mediums Mess Get Back Favourite Wet Pencils Tactile Favourite Things

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“I listed to Tchaikovsky. He is both kitsch and profound. I love that lack of "Good taste."”

Taste Profound Good Taste Kitsch Tchaikovsky

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“Every line is the actual experience with its own unique story.”

Stories Lines Unique

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

Art Preparation Length Preparing

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“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.”

Writing Done Painting Wall Pencils Linear Lyrical Graffiti Writing On The Wall

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“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?”

Knows Inspirational Giving Art I Can Two Time Three Can Do Hours Cutting Minutes Building Painting Ready Paint Boring Painter Bored Dry Brushes Sculptors

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

Ifs Has Beens Choices Another Time

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“I had my freedom and that was nice.”

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“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.”

Done Certain Liberty Taken Standing Breaths Wave Impatient Physicality

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“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.”

Kind Hard Feelings Certain Lines Painting Happenings Tasks Lonely Nervous Nervous System Dreamy

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“And we who have always thought of happiness climbing, would feel the emotion that almost startles when happiness falls.”

Feels Fall Emotion Climbing

Book:Cy Twombly: Bilder, Arbeiten auf Papier, Skulpturen

Source: Cy Twombly: Bilder, Arbeiten auf Papier, Skulpturen

“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.”

Years Looks Lucky Sculpture

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“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.”

Ifs Thinking Hate Cutting Garden I Hate Rose Height Rose Garden

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About the Author

Born: April 25, 1928
Died: July 5, 2011
Known for: Painter
Quotes: 15

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