Quotes From "I Was Vermeer: The Rise And Fall Of The Twentieth Centurys Greatest Forger" By Frank Wynne

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