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

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

It was a movement that had all the art critics, all the museum directors in its thrall.

Impulses are hard to come by these days.

I am primarily concerned with the condition of man.

Here we were, corrupting all those Russians toward communism.

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