"Heavy as winter breathing"
Ruefle, Twombly, Drummond, Cowen
Mary Ruefle:
Cy Twombly:
It’s instinctive in a certain kind of painting, not as if you were painting an object or special things, but it’s like coming through the nervous system. It’s like a nervous system. It's not described, it’s happening. The feeling is going on with the task. The line is the feeling, from a soft thing, a dreamy thing, to something hard, something arid, something lonely, something ending, something beginning. It’s like I’m experiencing something frightening, I’m experiencing the thing and I have to be at that state because I’m also going.
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Carlos Drummond de Andrade (tr. from Portuguese by Richard Zenith):
Elise Cowen:
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