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

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

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

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

Here we were, corrupting all those Russians toward communism.

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

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