the most secret hours of a life

‘“It is very difficult to talk about an artist,” said poet Octavio Paz about Cy Twombly, “always we are talking about another way of trying to understand a secret.” The secret life of making, I think he means, is not just the color as it moves from brush or hand to surface, but how an idea travels across the surfaces of a mind. The secret life of hours spent looking. These most secret hours of a life.’

Joshua Rivkin, Chalk. The Art and Erasure of Cy Twombly