(Images from cytwombly.info and NY Magazine)
"When [Cy Twombly] writes and repeats this one word: Virgil, it is already a commentary on Virgil, for the name, inscribed by hand, not only calls up a whole idea (though an empty one) of ancient culture but also 'operates' a kind of citation: that of an era bygone, calm, leisurely, even decadent studies: English preparatory schools, Latin verses, desks, lamps, tiny pencil annotations. That is culture for [Cy Twombly]: an ease, a memory, an irony, a posture, the gesture of a dandy."
- Roland Barthes in The Responsibility of Forms
