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arranged properly. But I think they're very interesting anyway. The thing about the contemporary Americans is that you have to arrange your interiors entirely around them and in an entirely different way than what you can arrange a house for French impressionists or even paintings by Picasso and Matisse. It's just an entirely different conception of how to live. You can't live with them the same way.

Why is this? Why do they differ so?

Well, one artist, Boucher, who is a portrait painter and who painted me rather unsuccessfully a number of times, had been a part of their early group; and he said that they had been tremendously emotionally disturbed by the war and by the violence of the war and by the implications of atomic energy and the atomic explosion and the kinds of feelings they had seemed to need bigger canvases than had painters who predate this event.

I complained to him when I first knew Gottlieb that his pictures were too large for me. “Well,” he said, “that may be, but my pictures don't really look right small.” He did paint a few smaller pictures, and they don't look right. His conceptions don't look right small.