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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.