It's toys, boy, all toys. You'll see more and more contraptions as you get older, but if I teach you anything, you'll learn that all of this is decoration. What counts is what's inside you and what you can see in others.
I have never painted a self-portrait. I am less interested in myself as a subject for a painting than I am in other people, above all women. . . There is nothing special about me. I am a painter who paints day after day from morning to night. . . Who ever wants to know something about me. . . ought to look carefully at my pictures.