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.

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

Impulses are hard to come by these days.

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?