Beltracchi Wolfgang Quotes

#1. If you have read 6,000 books in your lifetime, or even 600, it's probably because at some level you find 'reality' a bit of a disappointment.

Joe Queenan

#2. One is a criminal to some people and an artist to others. I can understand that. In a legal sense, I am a convicted criminal.

Wolfgang Beltracchi

#3. I can paint anything. Leonardo? Of course. But why? You couldn't sell it.

Wolfgang Beltracchi

#4. I wouldn't be ashamed to sell my own art for a lot of money.

Wolfgang Beltracchi

#5. Out of the mountain of despair, a stone of hope.

Martin Luther

#6. Maybe what I want is to cut all ties with everybody. The thread or something that keeps me connected to the world, the worthless proof that I exist.

Natsuo Kirino

#7. The pattern of our lives is essentially circular. We must be open to all points of the compass; husband, children, friends, home, community; stretched out, exposed, sensitive like a spider's web to each breeze that blows, to each call that comes.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

#8. Time and again these governments have rejected proposals today - and longed for them tomorrow.

Abba Eban

#9. I once went to a demonstration in Aachen against fare increases on public transport. A police officer pulled out a bunch of my hair, and there were a lot of violent beatings. That's when I thought to myself: You'd better leave it alone.

Wolfgang Beltracchi

#10. You can't paint pictures of love. You can only imagine them. So I suppose I don't need a painting by another artist. I have enough of my own.

Wolfgang Beltracchi

#11. I never decided to become an art forger. I was aware of my talent at an early age, and I used it foolishly. This developed over the years. In my heart, I don't see myself as a criminal.

Wolfgang Beltracchi

#12. I lived on a houseboat in Amsterdam for a year. It was intense, and it's possible that I even had a few blackouts.

Wolfgang Beltracchi

#13. No one ever ordered anything from me. I painted because I wanted to.

Wolfgang Beltracchi

#14. Most forgers are caught because they tell the wrong person about what they do.

Wolfgang Beltracchi

#15. I think that the most important requirement is to capture the essence of a piece of art. You look at it, essentially absorb it, and you have to be able to understand it visually without having to think about how it was done. I was already able to do that as a child.

Wolfgang Beltracchi

#16. Of course. Ask your librarian. Always the right answer.

Marilyn Johnson

#17. The truth seems ... to be that in the ultimate and essential problem the economic factor is relatively superficial and unimportant.

Frank Knight

#18. I went to the flea market in the morning and charged tourists money to take pictures of me. I looked pretty wild, with hair down to my waist, Indian robes, a floor-length fur coat. There must be lots of photos of me out there.

Wolfgang Beltracchi

#19. I want serious, baby. You're it for me.

River Savage

#20. Tennis was always there for me, which was lucky. I would go play baseball, basketball, football, hang with my brother, do whatever, and at the end of the day I'd come back and say, 'Hey, Mom, would you hit 15 minutes worth of balls with me?'

Jimmy Connors

#21. I feel like I'm one of the happiest people I know.

Hope Davis

#22. Sometimes I smoked opium. And I also took LSD - for a while, quite a lot of LSD, in fact. But I never had any bad experiences. I stopped in 1985. I'd had enough, and I don't miss it, either.

Wolfgang Beltracchi

#23. For the cynic, art is defined through money. That, of course, is a very sad statement. But an artist is someone who does creative things.

Wolfgang Beltracchi

#24. If finding true love was easy we'd all have a lot more free time.

John Avery

#25. I only painted when I felt like it and needed money. But it never really became a professional thing, even though the dealers would have liked that.

Wolfgang Beltracchi

#26. The trick is to paint a picture that doesn't exist, and yet that fits perfectly into an artist's body of work.

Wolfgang Beltracchi

#27. The Bad Seeds are a band I will travel a great distance to see whenever possible.

Henry Rollins