I never decided to become an art forger. I was aware of my talent at an early age, and I used it foolishly. This developed over the years. In my heart, I don't see myself as a criminal.

I never decided to become an art forger. I was aware of my talent at an early age, and I used it foolishly. This developed over the years. In my heart, I don't see myself as a criminal.

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.

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.

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

In a legal sense, I am a convicted criminal.

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