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

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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 — Frank Wynne, I Was Vermeer: The Rise and Fall of the Twentieth Century's Greatest Forger
Art is the business of selling fetishes, sacred relics once touched by genius: what the forger offers the gullible buyer — Frank Wynne, I Was Vermeer: The Rise and Fall of the Twentieth Century's Greatest Forger
Vermeer's skill was in combining few colors, mixing little and using layers of lakes and varnishes to build up the illus — Frank Wynne, I Was Vermeer: The Rise and Fall of the Twentieth Century's Greatest Forger
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
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