Most artists like to think of themselves as rugged individualists, as independent characters.
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.
Now painting is different. It's something recollected in tranquility.
Impulses are hard to come by these days.
It was a movement that had all the art critics, all the museum directors in its thrall.
Here we were, corrupting all those Russians toward communism.