Carolina QuotesEach 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].
Cy Twombly Connected to the Carolinas
Source
Quote of Twombly in 'Writings', Flash Art International, Laura Cherubini, October 2008 (translation from Italian: Beatrice Barbareschi)
- work
- 1950 - 1960
- year
- 1950
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“Each line is now the actual experience with its own innate h…” Cy Twombly. Carolina Quotes, record CQ-9A585C2272. https://carolinaquotes.com/quote/9a585c2272
More from Cy Twombly
For myself the past is the source (for all art is vitally contemporary).
In painting it is the forming of the image.
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.