All pictures are unnatural. All pictures are sad because they're about dead people. Paintings you don't think of in a special time or with a specific event. With photos I always think I'm looking at something dead.

It's only a few nutcases who do art for themselves, like Van Gogh.

Fortunately I didn't get educated because if I'd got educated I'd be an educated fool now.

I've been used by women all my life, fortunately.

All pictures are unnatural. All pictures are sad because they're about dead people. Paintings you don't think of in a special time or with a specific event. With photos I always think I'm looking at something dead.

In France they don't think I'm difficult.

I didn't know a time when there wasn't a war because I spent all my time from the age of two or three to eight in a coal cellar really.