Cy Twombly Quotes
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.
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I mean, I think we're put here on earth to make your own destiny, to begin with. I don't think there's anything you can do this way or that way to change anything.
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I think there's just one kind of folks. Folks.
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Because of the structure of the contemporary American party system, every president is polarizing.
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I think, in Spain, they are too used to reaching the limits of democracy and then stepping over them.
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I think that charity is a tricky thing, because a lot of times, people equate charity with handouts. I don't believe in handouts.
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I grew up loving musicals. My mom had records of original cast recordings, and one of them was 'She Loves Me.' I wore that thing out singing along to Barbara Cook when I was eight years old.
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But I love the hot sweat. I think overheating onstage is invigorating. It's better than being comfortable. I think being comfortable is the death of a show.
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I was never totally what we would now call 'politically correct,' even in my most militant phase. I always liked good food, good wines. I suppose it was because I had total confidence in myself.
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Give immediate instruction to all your posts in said territory, under your direction, at no time and on no pretence to hoist, or suffer be hoisted, the English flag.
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To try to fashion something from suffering, to relish our triumphs, and to endure defeats without resentment: all that is compatible with the faith of a heretic.
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I've gone to Detroit. I've been to Ferguson; I've been to Baltimore, because I want our party to be bigger, better and bolder, and I'm the only one that leads Hillary Clinton in five states that were won by President Obama. I'm a different kind of Republican.
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He was up in Wyoming,And drew a bull no man could ride.He promised her he'd turn out,Well it turned out that he lied.And their dreams that they'd been livin',In the California sand,Died right there beside him in Cheyenne.
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I am convinced that we have a degree of delight, and that no small one, in the real misfortunes and pains of others.
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Patriots always talk of dying for their country, and never of killing for their country.
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There can be no immaculate conception of socialism.
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If there were a category in the Olympics for laundry, my mother would have been a gold-medal winner.
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I'm gonna go hard no matter what because I gotta feed my family, and I gotta feed myself.
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As I get older, I'm looking more and more for films that are actually about something rather than just narrative vehicles.
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In the silence of our hearts, God speaks of His love; with our silence, we allow Jesus to love us.
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It's going to start really interfering with your quality of life, your health, if you don't adjust to life as it's happening to you.
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I don't understand small businesses, only big ones. Marriage is the hardest small business.
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I feel that I am much freer if I'm on my own, but I'm sure that there are a lot of painters who would perhaps be even more inventive if they had people round them... I find that if I am on my own I can allow the paint to dictate to me. So the images that I'm putting down on the canvas dictate the thing to me and it gradually builds up and comes along.
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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.
