Quote of Twombly in 'Writings', Flash Art International, Laura Cherubini, October 2008 (translation from Italian: Beatrice Barbareschi)
1950 - 1960
“[The sensate body possesses] an art of interrogating the sensible according to its own wishes, an inspired exegesis”
The Visible and the Invisible, trans. A. Lingis (Evanston: 1968), p. 135
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“On the Day of Judgement, God will interrogate people according to the wisdom he has granted them.”
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Source: Epigrams, p. 352
In the Belly of the Beast (1981)
a poetry line on his painting, in: 'Tiger's Eye', Baziotes, Vol. I, no. 5, Westport, Connecticut, October 1948, p. 35
1940s

“There is no inspiration in evil and no power except for its own destruction.”
The Secret of Efficient Expression (1911)

In a letter to H. P. Bremmer (Dutch art-critic and buyer of his paintings), Paris 29 January 1914; as quoted in Mondrian, - The Art of Destruction, Carel Blotkamp, Reaktion Books LTD. London 2001, p. 75
1910's