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

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

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

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

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