There is a time when you just take a walk.... you walk in your own landscape... It has an innocence that is kind of a grand feeling... Somehow I have the feeling that old man Monet might have felt like that, just simple in front of things, or old man Cézanne too... I really understand them now.

(1980's)as quoted in 'A painter's testament: De Kooning in the Eighties', Robert Storr, Moma-website, reprinted in 1997