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.

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

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

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 had enough, and I don't miss it, either.

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 painter's creative center and become familiar with it, so that I could see through his eyes how his paintings came about and, of course, see the new picture I was painting through his eyes - before I even painted it.

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

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