Carolina QuotesWhen I work I work very fast, but preparing the work can take any length.
Cy Twombly Connected to the Carolinas
Source
Remark at the 'photo-exhibition Cy Twombly', museum Marseille, Amsterdam, Autumn 2008
- work
- 2000 - 2011
- year
- 2000
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“When I work I work very fast, but preparing the work can tak…” Cy Twombly. Carolina Quotes, record CQ-1B8118B724. https://carolinaquotes.com/quote/1b8118b724
More from Cy Twombly
It's more like I'm having an experience than making a picture. So I've never had anyone around. I never have. People are different, but I have to really be with no interference. And it takes me hours. Painting a picture is a very short thing if it goes well, but the sitting and thinking.. .I usually go off on stories that have nothing to do with the painting, and sometimes I sit in the opposite room to where I work. If I can get a good hot story I can paint better, but sometimes I'm not thinking about the painting, I'm thinking about the subject. Lots of times I'll sit in another room and then I might just go in. It takes a lot of freedom. I'm working for two years on a subject now: ten paintings, and that can carry on for two years. I worked last summer and I started this summer and with just the simplest motif I just can't seem to do it. And everything slowed down.
Each line is now the actual experience with its own innate history. It does not illustrate — it is the sensation of its own realization. [a written art note by Twombly on a painting he created in 1957].
I think of myself as a Romantic Symbolist.