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
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.
I was brought up to think you don't talk about yourself.
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.
paintings
It's absurd to talk about paintings that you haven't finished.
years sculpture lucky
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.
hands oil use
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.
tchaikovsky profound kitsch
I listed to Tchaikovsky. He is both kitsch and profound. I love that lack of "Good taste."
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.
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.
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.
choices has-beens ifs
I would’ve liked to have been Poussin, if I’d had a choice, in another time
literature painting
I never really separated painting and literature.
art length preparing
When I work, I work very fast, but preparing to work can take any length of time.