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.

- Cy Twombly

I never really separated painting and literature.

- Cy Twombly

And we who have always thought of happiness climbing, would feel the emotion that almost startles when happiness falls.

- Cy Twombly

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.

- Cy Twombly

I had my freedom and that was nice.

- Cy Twombly

Paint is something that I use with my hands and do all those tactile things. I really don't like oil because you can't get back into it, or you make …

- Cy Twombly

Every line is the actual experience with its own unique story.

- Cy Twombly

When I work, I work very fast, but preparing to work can take any length of time.

- Cy Twombly

I listed to Tchaikovsky. He is both kitsch and profound. I love that lack of "Good taste."

- Cy Twombly