Cy Twombly in his Fulton Street Studio in 1954, photographed by Robert Rauschenberg.
Cy Twombly is my favorite painter of all time, yet until now I never knew what he looked like. Very cool.
Cy Twombly in the ’50s, photographed by Robert Rauschenberg.
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against the wall, the firing squad ready.
then he got a reprieve.
suppose they had shot Dostoevsky?
before he wrote all that?
I suppose it wouldn’t have
mattered
not directly.
there are billions of people who have
never read him and never
will.
but as a young man I know that he
got me…
(Source: writersalmanac.publicradio.org)