I Was Vermeer: The Rise and Fall of the Twentieth Century's Greatest Forger
Frank Wynne
Top 10 Best Quotes
“We should all realize that we can only talk about the bad forgeries, the ones that have been detected; the good ones are still hanging on the walls”
“Forgeries are an ever-changing portrait of human desires. Each society, each generation, fakes the things it covets most”
“Art is the business of selling fetishes, sacred relics once touched by genius: what the forger offers the gullible buyer is not art, it is "authenticity”
“[A]rt is not art until it's sold. Until then it's merely a storage problem.”
“Vermeer's skill was in combining few colors, mixing little and using layers of lakes and varnishes to build up the illusion of life”
“The true work of the critic is not to make his hearer believe him, but agree with him”
“It doesn't matter how badly you paint as long as you don't paint badly like other people”
“Dada was not an art, it was anti-art, a credo ruled by absurdity, nonsense, chance and chaos, a rejection of everything that Han believed, cherished, practiced - and it was to change art for ever”
“Artists copy the pictures of those they admire, those they aspire to, acknowledged masters whose work embodies everything they hope to achieve”
“An artist must paint not simply surface light, but what is inside, what he sees within his subject”
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