"...the drawing also suggests forms studded with nails or other embellishments, or hung with tassels, fringes, thatchos of raffia and pendants of feathers and hair. when translated into the painted surface, the relatively casual and cursive strokes that conjure these excrescenses become the pretext for a pervasive linear scratching unattached to the descriptiom of form:overlays of repetitive markings that dig into and scarify the paint in away that makes drawing, with crayon and pencil, a major part of the art's expressivenes."
Cy Twombly, a retrospective, the MOMA catalogue by kirk varnedoe
