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)

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.

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