My goal... not to go back to Rembrandt... but to bring the great tradition and whatever is great about it, up to date.
Most artists like to think of themselves as rugged individualists, as independent characters.
I have never learned to draw a hand well enough, so why should I stop trying now?
I am primarily concerned with the condition of man.
Now painting is different. It's something recollected in tranquility.
It was a movement that had all the art critics, all the museum directors in its thrall.