Quoting Roberta Smith, An Artist of Selective Abandon, The New York Times, 2011

Perhaps the most important continuity that Mr. Twombly cultivated was that between artwork and viewer. His art revealed an enthralling calligraphic and diagrammatic universe teeming with meaning. His ultimate subject was nothing less than the human longing to communicate — to make meaning that others could apprehend and expand.

— Roberta Smith, An Artist of Selective Abandon, The New York Times, 2011

8:58am on January 27, 2025 from Vancouver, Canada.


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