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

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

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.

Impulses are hard to come by these days.

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.

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