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 TwomblyAnd we who have always thought of happiness climbing, would feel the emotion that almost startles when happiness falls.
Cy TwomblyI listed to Tchaikovsky. He is both kitsch and profound. I love that lack of "Good taste."
Cy TwomblyI 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.
Cy TwomblyIt'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.
Cy Twombly