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I Was Vermeer: The Rise and Fall of the Twentieth Century's Greatest Forger QUOTES

I Was Vermeer: The Rise and Fall of the Twentieth Century's Greatest Forger QUOTES

1 " 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 "

― Frank Wynne , I Was Vermeer: The Rise and Fall of the Twentieth Century's Greatest Forger

2 " Vermeer's skill was in combining few colors, mixing little and using layers of lakes and varnishes to build up the illusion of life "

― Frank Wynne , I Was Vermeer: The Rise and Fall of the Twentieth Century's Greatest Forger

3 " An artist must paint not simply surface light but what is inside, what he sees within his subject "

― Frank Wynne , I Was Vermeer: The Rise and Fall of the Twentieth Century's Greatest Forger

4 " An artist must paint not simply surface light, but what is inside, what he sees within his subject "

― Frank Wynne , I Was Vermeer: The Rise and Fall of the Twentieth Century's Greatest Forger

5 " The true work of the critic is not to make his hearer believe him, but agree with him "

― Frank Wynne , I Was Vermeer: The Rise and Fall of the Twentieth Century's Greatest Forger

6 " Forgeries are an ever-changing portrait of human desires. Each society, each generation, fakes the things it covets most "

― Frank Wynne , I Was Vermeer: The Rise and Fall of the Twentieth Century's Greatest Forger

7 " 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 "

― Frank Wynne , I Was Vermeer: The Rise and Fall of the Twentieth Century's Greatest Forger

8 " Artists copy the pictures of those they admire, those they aspire to, acknowledged masters whose work embodies everything they hope to achieve "

― Frank Wynne , I Was Vermeer: The Rise and Fall of the Twentieth Century's Greatest Forger

9 " 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 "

― Frank Wynne , I Was Vermeer: The Rise and Fall of the Twentieth Century's Greatest Forger

10 " It doesn't matter how badly you paint as long as you don't paint badly like other people "

― Frank Wynne , I Was Vermeer: The Rise and Fall of the Twentieth Century's Greatest Forger

11 " [A]rt is not art until it's sold. Until then it's merely a storage problem. "

― Frank Wynne , I Was Vermeer: The Rise and Fall of the Twentieth Century's Greatest Forger