11 Quotes by Frank Wynne

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

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

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

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

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

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.