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 robes, a floor-length fur coat. There must be lots of photos of me out there.

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 robes, a floor-length fur coat. There must be lots of photos of me out there.

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

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 able to understand it visually without having to think about how it was done. I was already able to do that as a child.

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.

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.