Carolina QuotesI knew a poet who was totally ignorant about botany. And I said: you can't be a poet without knowing any botany or plants and things like that; it's impossible, that's the first thing you should know.
Cy Twombly Connected to the Carolinas
Source
p. 173
- work
- 'Cy Twombly, 2000', by David Sylvester (June 2000)
- year
- 2000
- locator
- p. 173
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“I knew a poet who was totally ignorant about botany. And I s…” Cy Twombly. Carolina Quotes, record CQ-629CAFAB24. https://carolinaquotes.com/quote/629cafab24
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For myself the past is the source (for all art is vitally contemporary).
To me, Pollock is the height of American painting. It's very lyrical. Gorky, who is very passionate, can copy a drawing or take a drawing and copy it exactly as a painting, and Miro can too, it's amazing. Miro can do a drawing to paint and that's another training in a sense. So there's a certain mannerism that comes in both of them [three], and probably everything becomes obvious in time. But I don't have that. The line is illustrated or the colour. I'm sure it has great feeling when they're doing it, but it's more towards defining something. It has a certain clarity because it's a complex thing. I'm a painter and my whole balance is not having to think about things. So all I think about is painting. It's the instinct for the placement where all that happens. I don't have to think about it. So I don't think of composition; I don’t think of colour here and there. Sometimes I alter something after. So all I could think is the rush.. .I cannot make a picture unless everything is working. It's like a state.
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].