39 Quotes by Cy Twombly

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.

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

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.

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.

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

White paint is my marble.

I work in an impatient way.

I'm not an abstractionist completely.

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