I can paint anything. Leonardo? Of course. But why? You couldn't sell it..

Did I want to spend all my time working on a painting? No, I wanted to have fun, travel, meet women and live life..

You can't paint pictures of love. You can only imagine them. So I suppose I don't need a painting by another artist. I have enough of my own..

I once went to a demonstration in Aachen against fare increases on public transport. A police officer pulled out a bunch of my hair, and there were a….

I went to the flea market in the morning and charged tourists money to take pictures of me. I looked pretty wild, with hair down to my waist, Indian ….

I think that the most important requirement is to capture the essence of a piece of art. You look at it, essentially absorb it, and you have to be ab….

In a legal sense, I am a convicted criminal..

I only painted when I felt like it and needed money. But it never really became a professional thing, even though the dealers would have liked that..

The interesting thing is that in everyday life, I fail to see the most ordinary things. I often stumble and sometimes I even fall over. But when I dr….

Sometimes I smoked opium. And I also took LSD - for a while, quite a lot of LSD, in fact. But I never had any bad experiences. I stopped in 1985. I'd….

I wouldn't be ashamed to sell my own art for a lot of money..

I never decided to become an art forger. I was aware of my talent at an early age, and I used it foolishly. This developed over the years. In my hear….

Most forgers are caught because they tell the wrong person about what they do..

No one ever ordered anything from me. I painted because I wanted to..

For the cynic, art is defined through money. That, of course, is a very sad statement. But an artist is someone who does creative things..

One is a criminal to some people and an artist to others. I can understand that. In a legal sense, I am a convicted criminal..

The trick is to paint a picture that doesn't exist, and yet that fits perfectly into an artist's body of work..

Every philharmonic orchestra merely interprets the composer. My goal was to create new music by that composer. In doing so, I wanted to find the pain….

Fame never interested me. I could have exhibited more of my own works in the 1970s, but I didn't want to. It's sort of like being a child. When you'r….

I lived on a houseboat in Amsterdam for a year. It was intense, and it's possible that I even had a few blackouts..