Christopher Moore Quotes

I don`t expect you to have any leniency or even believe a word I say. I have to stop lying to myself.

The value of the work we do is the value we give to it.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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It was a catastrophe, of course. We had no clients, no nothing. Nobody understood the idea of doing reproductions.

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.`

In the movie, the painting is supposed to be worth $100 million. No painting is worth $100 million. But for the movie, $100 million is a number that any person can understand as expensive. If you say $50 million nowadays, it`s not enough.