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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For many decades, Myanmar was on the receiving end of very public diplomatic scoldings, often backed up by sanctions.
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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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Religion is not a fractional thing that can be doled out in fixed weekly or daily measures as one among various subjects in the school syllabus. It is the truth of our complete being, the consciousness of our personal relationship with the infinite.
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Summer is a great opportunity for all of cable. People love to find original episodes.
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Media runs the world, and it all changed, I think, when the debate between Kennedy and Nixon happened, and first of all we saw them on television, and that changed everything.
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A fat lot of good it would do if I told you that Titian's courtesans make you want to caress them. Some day you'll see the Titians for yourself, and if they have no effect on you, then you don't understand the first thing about painting. And I wouldn't be able to help you.
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I know that after my death a pile of rubbish will be heaped on my grave, but the wind of History will sooner or later sweep it away without mercy.
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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.
