Richard Serra: I was standing there looking at it, and I realized that Velázquez was looking at me, and I thought, "" Oh. I'm the subject of the painting. "" And I thought, "" I'm not going to be able to do that painting. "" I was to the point where I was using a stopwatch and painting squares out of randomness, and I wasn't getting anywhere. So I went back and dumped all my paintings in the Arno, and I thought, I'm going to just start playing around.