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

As far as I'm concerned, I want to remain the mean little man I always was.

Here we were, corrupting all those Russians toward communism.

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

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

I have never learned to draw a hand well enough, so why should I stop trying now?

I am primarily concerned with the condition of man.