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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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