"I sit for two or three hours and then in 15 minutes I can do a painting, but that's part of it. You have to get ready and decide to jump up and do it; you build yourself up psychologically, and so painting has no time for brush. Brush is boring, you give it and all of a sudden it's dry, you have to go. Before you cut the thought, you know?"

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Source : "What Makes art, Art?" by Amber Kane, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 13, 2016.

Cy Twombly

#Cutting Quotes #Two Quotes #Giving Quotes

“The roles that I feel I get, or handed to me, or whatever, are not that interesting. I don't think it's a problem that's specific to black women. I think it's a problem that's specific to movie-making in America.”
“God said to Gideon, I'll deliver you once I diminish you.”
“[My] career was sputtering until [I] did a 360 and got headed in the right direction.”
“Nothing will ever equal that moment of joyous excitement which filled my whole being when I felt myself flying away from the earth. It was not mere pleasure; it was perfect bliss. Escaped from the frightful torments of persecution and of calumny, I felt that I was answering all in rising above all.”
“I think in Washington, D.C., a lot of people are talking down about business.”
“My father, George, has also affected the choices in my life regarding films. I like films that take chances or say something different or experiment. Growing up with him, I was surrounded by different artists - not just actors or film-makers but cartoonists, poets, writers.”
“No one spiritual path is better than another, although one may accept the universe's role in life more than another.”
“It is the triumph of superior reason to live with folks who don't have any.”

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