Top 20 Quotes by Cy Twombly

I work in an impatient way.

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

I don't work 9 to 5.

Virginia is a good start for Italy.

White paint is my marble.

To my mind, one does not put oneself in place of the past; one only adds a new link.

Once I said to my mother: 'You would be happy if I just kept well-dressed and had good manners,' and she said: 'What else is there?'

The Mediterranean is always just white, white, white.

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.

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.'