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're finished with school, you have only one thing on your mind: to get out and experience life. 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.

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.

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

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're finished with school, you have only one thing on your mind: to get out and experience life. 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.