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.

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.

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.

I once went to a demonstration in Aachen against fare increases on public transport. A police officer pulled out a bunch of my hair, and there were a lot of violent beatings. That's when I thought to myself: You'd better leave it alone.

In a legal sense, I am a convicted criminal.

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

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