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Cy Twombly [1928-2001] American

Rank: 104
Artist, Painter

Edwin Parker "Cy" Twombly, Jr. was an American painter, sculptor and photographer. He belonged to the generation of Robert Rauschenberg and Jasper Johns but chose to live in Italy after 1957.

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It's absurd to talk about paintings that you haven't finished.		101
I look at a lot of artists. I'm inspired by - I suppose I shouldn't say 'inspired,' but it's not really influenced. I am inspired. Art comes from art.	Art	102
I swear if I had to do this over again, I would just do the paintings and never show them.		103
Once I said to my mother: 'You would be happy if I just kept well-dressed and had good manners,' and she said: 'What else is there?'		104
I hate roses. Don't you? It's all right if you can hide them in a cutting garden, but I think a rose garden is the height of ick.		105
I love my sculptures, and I was lucky I had them for 50 years because no one would look at them, and I really liked having them around.		106
Graffiti is usually a protest - ink on walls - or has a reason for being naughty or aggressive.		107
I was brought up to think you don't talk about yourself.		108
To my mind, one does not put oneself in place of the past; one only adds a new link.		109
I have my pace and way of living, and I'm not looking for something.		110
I'm not an abstractionist completely.		111
The Mediterranean is always just white, white, white.		112
I used to change things in my early paintings to get the nuance or feeling I wanted, but now I plan everything in my head before I do it.		113
I don't work 9 to 5.		114
I would've liked to have been Poussin, if I'd had a choice, in another time.		115
I work in an impatient way.		116
White paint is my marble.		117
Virginia is a good start for Italy.		118
Graffiti is linear, and it's done with a pencil, and it's like writing on walls.		119
My parents were from New England. It's very funny, but when I grew up, you always had to say, 'Yes, ma'am' and 'Yes, sir.'		120

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