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

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.

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

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

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.

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.