Cy Twombly Quotes
Each 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.
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I don't feel that it's either necessary or appropriate for me to comment on what the NFL either says or does.
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I drive a car, like an adult. Not brilliantly. I'm not great.
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I am not a prisoner of conscious, but people try to make me one sometimes. It is both a gift and a curse. It's a high honour but can create limitations - I have to be fluid.
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Preachers at black churches are the last people left in the English-speaking world who know the schemes and tropes of classical rhetoric: parallelism, antithesis, epistrophe, synecdoche, metonymy, periphrasis, litotes - the whole bag of tricks.
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Integrity is so perishable in the summer months of success.
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We are born believing. A man bears beliefs as a tree bears apples.
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My parents live out in the middle of nowhere, in the middle of this peach orchard. It's actually Peach County, one of the largest peach-growing counties in Georgia. It's very rural, and there is nothing much going on, so I guess that's had a big influence on everything as far as just not having much to do.
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If you know you are giving your best effort, you'll never have any reason for regrets.
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There is no force so democratic as the force of an ideal.
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When I had cancer - of the colon first, followed by breast cancer and a mastectomy - my motto used to be 'Drips by day, Prada by night.' I felt that I had to grasp it in the same way as you'd take on any challenge.
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Fashion is unique. It's a leveler, not a divider.
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When I was in college, I was a semiotics major, which is this hopelessly pretentious body of French literary theory.
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I like working with my own body weight, and I just do the best job I can to be healthy and strong, both before and after a fight.
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Thrift shopping is all about going into the thrift shop and having no expectation of what you might find.
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I'm a very private person. My life story isn't for everybody.
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In reality, those rare few cases with good forensic evidence are the ones that make it to court.
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I like writing people from a slightly sharp angle and then throwing more light on them. I think in life we see somebody and make judgments very quickly about who they are and what they are. Or we think people are boring because they appear ordinary.
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I find industrial cities exciting. I like their toughness.
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This scepticism is the same scepticism I heard a generation ago in the USSR when few thought that a democratic transformation behind the iron curtain was possible.
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I've actually been given a great gift. When I walk into an audition with a director, I'm carrying no baggage. They haven't seen me in anything, even though I've done nine films.
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I said to my agent, 'I want short, sharp, well-paid jobs because I haven't got time for anything else.'
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Art for Duchamp, all the arts, obey the same law: meta-irony is inherent in their very spirit. It is an irony that destroys its own negation and, hence, returns in the affirmative.
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Each 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.
