Experience was my only teacher; I knew little of the modern art movement. When I first saw the works of the Impressionists, van Gogh, van Dongen, and Fauves, I admired it. But I had to seek the true way alone.

It's only a few nutcases who do art for themselves, like Van Gogh.

Van Gogh was impulsive.

Then I abandoned comics for fine art because I had some romantic vision of being like Vincent Van Gogh Jr.

It would be difficult for me to express all my thoughts about it. It remains a constant disappointment to me that my drawings are not yet what I want them to be. The difficulties are indeed numerous and great, and cannot be overcome immediately. Maki

Van Gogh would have to cut his cock off to make an impression nowadays