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

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

My goal... not to go back to Rembrandt... but to bring the great tradition and whatever is great about it, up to date.

Here we were, corrupting all those Russians toward communism.

Impulses are hard to come by these days.

I'm the little dog who goes the wrong way-under the hoop.

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.