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“Fame never interested me. I could have exhibited more of my own works in the 1970s, but I didn't want to. It's sort of like being a child. When you're finished with school, you have only one thing on your mind: to get out and experience life. Did I want to spend all my time working on a painting? No, I wanted to have fun, travel, meet women and live life.”

Quote by Wolfgang Beltracchi

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Wolfgang Beltracchi

Wolfgang Beltracchi is a German artist known for his forgeries of classical paintings. Born on February 4, 1951, he began forging classical works in the 1980s and became a mystery in the art world. His forgeries were highly valued in the art market, but were later revealed to be fakes. more

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“The interesting thing is that in everyday life, I fail to see the most ordinary things. I often stumble and sometimes I even fall over. But when I draw or look at a painting, I go into a sort of overdrive and just see things differently than other people.”

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“I once went to a demonstration in Aachen against fare increases on public transport. A police officer pulled out a bunch of my hair, and there were a lot of violent beatings. That's when I thought to myself: You'd better leave it alone.”

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“Sometimes I smoked opium. And I also took LSD - for a while, quite a lot of LSD, in fact. But I never had any bad experiences. I stopped in 1985. I'd had enough, and I don't miss it, either.”

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“I went to the flea market in the morning and charged tourists money to take pictures of me. I looked pretty wild, with hair down to my waist, Indian robes, a floor-length fur coat. There must be lots of photos of me out there.”

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“I only painted when I felt like it and needed money. But it never really became a professional thing, even though the dealers would have liked that.”

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Author:Wolfgang Beltracchi

“No one ever ordered anything from me. I painted because I wanted to.”

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“Every philharmonic orchestra merely interprets the composer. My goal was to create new music by that composer. In doing so, I wanted to find the painter's creative center and become familiar with it, so that I could see through his eyes how his paintings came about and, of course, see the new picture I was painting through his eyes - before I even painted it.”

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“I wouldn't be ashamed to sell my own art for a lot of money.”

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“You can't paint pictures of love. You can only imagine them. So I suppose I don't need a painting by another artist. I have enough of my own.”

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