Skip to content

For myself the past is the source (for all art is vitally contemporary).

Another quote →

More quotes by Cy Twombly

I respond to the Greek love of metamorphosis.

I'm drawn to the primitive, the ritual and fetish elements.

When I work I work very fast, but preparing the work can take any length.

In painting it is the forming of the image.

I think of myself as a Romantic Symbolist.

All Cy Twombly quotes →

Attribution

Quote text and notes from Wikiquote: Cy Twombly (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0. Source quality and labels are our own summary of what Wikiquote records.