I have never learned to draw a hand well enough, so why should I stop trying now?

Now painting is different. It's something recollected in tranquility.

Impulses are hard to come by these days.

Most artists like to think of themselves as rugged individualists, as independent characters.

I wish there was a painter who could paint as well as Ted Williams could hit.

The satirical direction I have chosen is an indication of my disappointment in man, which is the opposite way of saying that I have high expectations for the human race.

Here we were, corrupting all those Russians toward communism.