Top 20 Quotes by Cy Twombly

Graffiti is linear, and it's done with a pencil, and it's like writing on walls.

The Mediterranean is always just white, white, white.

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.

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.

I work in an impatient way.

Virginia is a good start for Italy.

White paint is my marble.

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.

I would've liked to have been Poussin, if I'd had a choice, in another time.

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.'