Carolina QuotesI show things in flux.
Cy Twombly Connected to the Carolinas
Source
In: Cy Twombly, a monograph, Richard Leeman / picture research Isabelle d’Hauteville. London, 2005; p. 35
- work
- 1980 - 1999
- year
- 1980
- locator
- p. 35
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“I show things in flux.” Cy Twombly. Carolina Quotes, record CQ-97F973093A. https://carolinaquotes.com/quote/97f973093a
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.
To paint involves a certain crisis, or at least a crucial moment of sensation or release.By crisis by no means limited to a morbid state, but could just as easily be an ecstatic impulse.
I'm drawn to the primitive, the ritual and fetish elements.