Quotes from Frank Wynne

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

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

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

then, the library had tentatively reassured me that, however isolated I felt, I was not alone.

The true work of the critic is not to make his hearer believe him, but agree with him

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

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

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

It doesn't matter how badly you paint as long as you don't paint badly like other people

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