Frank Wynne Quotes

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

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

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#3. 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

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

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#5. 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

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

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#7. 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

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

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