I’ve found when you get old you must return to certain things in the beginning, or things you have a sentiment for or something. Because your life closes up in so many ways or doesn’t become as flexible or exciting or whatever you want to call it. You tend to be nostalgic.

 - Cy Twombly, from an “Interview / Cy Twombly / Rome” with David Sylvester, Art in America (July 2000)