Frank WynneWe 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
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How many people in the world can say that they have never made a mistake? And how many of those people can say that they have not only not made a mistake, but that they’ve never done anything wrong? “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.”
Source: I Was Vermeer: The Rise And Fall Of The Twentieth Centurys Greatest Forger
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