People, generally, suck.
Christopher Moore
The value of the work we do is the value we give to it.
work give
It was a catastrophe, of course. We had no clients, no nothing. Nobody understood the idea of doing reproductions.
idea
Gallery owners know me, but they never say, 'Hello,' because they don't want other people to know they know me,.. I have a little flag on my head saying, 'I'm the guy doing the fake things.'
flag people things fake head guy
Our artists are very good technicians. They have sensibility and artistic balance. But quite often they lack in creation. I have one artist here in my studio in New York. She's a good painter, but she has problems of creating her own stuff, of inventing. She can copy from a postcard, but when she has to do other things she has a tough time. She knows it. Not everybody can do great things.
time creation problems good balance artistic artist artists things great creating lack
There's one painting that historically would have been better,.. Because it was painted at the beginning of the Impressionist movement, and the one we're using is painted later. In the script they say, 'This is a very important painting because it was painted at start of the Impressionists,' and that's not really true. It was painted a few years later. But they selected the painting for purely visual reasons -- that they would capture better on camera, that it was more appealing, that it would catch the eye better.
true beginning start eye movement reasons painting important
In the movie, the painting is supposed to be worth 00 million. No painting is worth 00 million. But for the movie, 00 million is a number that any person can understand as expensive. If you say 0 million nowadays, it's not enough.
worth person understand movie painting
I did the one with the big butt. They said they want something that looks like a Renoir with the face of a 19th-century painting, so we had to do a grotesque painting. It was done in four days.
days face painting big grotesque
Collectors say, 'I hate reproductions. It's awful. Why would anybody do that,'.. That's what they say officially. But behind the scenes they use our copies. On the walls they have our copies. All their paintings are in vaults.
hate walls paintings
The African-American Freedom Trail: From Slavery to Freedom in New York City
african-american slavery city freedom
I don't expect you to have any leniency or even believe a word I say. I have to stop lying to myself.
lying word stop
funny humor people
The Painting is not shit,' said Lucien.'I know,' said Henri. 'That was just part of the subterfuge. I am of royal lineage; subterfuge is one of the many talents we carry in our blood, along with guile and hemophilia.
art talents blood shit painting part
I like a girl with a substantial bottom,' said Renoir, drawing in the air the size bottom he preferred.
art drawing girl air
Of course they won't bloody remember, they'll be dead.' Then she called him a name in a dead language that translated, roughly, to 'poop on a stick,' but sounded more succinct, like this: 'Of course they won't bloody remember, they'll be dead, Poopstick.
art language remember dead
His hero Millet had admonished. Auguste Renoir had told him. Ah, but what they hadn't said, hadn't warned him about, was you could see.
art hero painting
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