“To paint involves a certain crisis, or at least a crucial moment of sensation or release. By crisis by no means limited to a morbid state, but could just as easily be an ecstatic impulse.”

—  Cy Twombly

Quote from: 'Stuart Brent presents Cy Twombly', ed. N. de Roscao, 1951
1950 - 1960

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