Frank Wynne Quotes & Sayings

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

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

[A]rt is not art until it's sold. Until then it's merely a storage problem. — Frank Wynne

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 — Frank Wynne

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 — Frank Wynne

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

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