I think most of the art now is involved with a denial of any kind of absolute morality, or general morality.
I think most of the best new work is intended to have much more impact at once.
Pollock looks unusual and radical even now.
The older painting - well, it does have an effect all at once, I suppose, but it's of a lesser intensity than a lot of the American work in the last ten or fifteen years.
There's probably more in the American tradition than people give the place credit for.
Tolstoy may not be showing that much of Russia at that time even. It's hard to tell. You tend to associate the quality of the period with what's lasted - what's still good. And that quality becomes the whole period.
Well, I don't think anyone now would say that they're painting the state of the culture of America. I think that's too grand and pompous a thing for anybody to claim.
Well, I think there are artists who are more or less contemporary with Hopper who are more relevant.
Well, its very exasperating when you can't get it right.
