Carolina QuotesI'm drawn to the primitive, the ritual and fetish elements.
Cy Twombly Connected to the Carolinas
Source
Quote of Twombly in: 'Editions du Regard', January 1952, p.13; as cited in 'A monograph', M. Whittall, London,Thames & Hudson, 2005ns du Regard. p.
- work
- 1950 - 1960
- year
- 1950
- locator
- p.13
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“I'm drawn to the primitive, the ritual and fetish elements.” Cy Twombly. Carolina Quotes, record CQ-13CA949D90. https://carolinaquotes.com/quote/13ca949d90
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It's a sort of infantile thing, painting. Paint in a sense is a certain infantile thing. I mean in the handling. I start out using a brush but then I can't take the time because the idea doesn't correspond, it gets stuck when the brush goes out of paint in a certain length of time. So I have to go back and by then I might have lost the rest of it. So I take my hand and I do it. Or I have those wonderful things that came in later: paint sticks.. .So I had to find things that I could use, like my hands or the paint sticks.. .And I did those charts, big palettes.. .two or three paintings with palettes and all of the colours – pink, flesh, brown, red for blood. And I think with most painters you can think and it can change very fast, the impetus of what something is. It's instinctive in a certain kind of painting, not as if you were painting an object or special things, but it's like coming through the nervous system. It's like a nervous system. It's not described, it's happening. The feeling is going on with the task.
I respond to the Greek love of metamorphosis.
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