Impulses are hard to come by these days.

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

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

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

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

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

Here we were, corrupting all those Russians toward communism.