Most forgers are caught because they tell the wrong person about what they do. — Wolfgang Beltracchi Caught Copy Share Image
I wouldn't be ashamed to sell my own art for a lot of money. — Wolfgang Beltracchi Art Copy Share Image
I can paint anything. Leonardo? Of course. But why? You couldn't sell it. — Wolfgang Beltracchi Artist Copy Share Image
No one ever ordered anything from me. I painted because I wanted to. — Wolfgang Beltracchi Ordered Copy Share Image
I lived on a houseboat in Amsterdam for a year. It was intense, and it's possible that I even had a few… — Wolfgang Beltracchi Amsterdam Copy Share Image
One is a criminal to some people and an artist to others. I can understand that. In a legal sense, I am… — Wolfgang Beltracchi Art Copy Share Image
You can't paint pictures of love. You can only imagine them. So I suppose I don't need a painting by another artist.… — Wolfgang Beltracchi Art Copy Share Image
For the cynic, art is defined through money. That, of course, is a very sad statement. But an artist is someone who… — Wolfgang Beltracchi Art Copy Share Image
The trick is to paint a picture that doesn't exist, and yet that fits perfectly into an artist's body of work. — Wolfgang Beltracchi Art Copy Share Image
The interesting thing is that in everyday life, I fail to see the most ordinary things. I often stumble and sometimes I… — Wolfgang Beltracchi Artist Copy Share Image
I never decided to become an art forger. I was aware of my talent at an early age, and I used it… — Wolfgang Beltracchi Age Copy Share Image
I think that the most important requirement is to capture the essence of a piece of art. You look at it, essentially… — Wolfgang Beltracchi Able Copy Share Image
Sometimes I smoked opium. And I also took LSD - for a while, quite a lot of LSD, in fact. But I… — Wolfgang Beltracchi Bad experiences Copy Share Image
I once went to a demonstration in Aachen against fare increases on public transport. A police officer pulled out a bunch of… — Wolfgang Beltracchi Bunch Copy Share Image
I went to the flea market in the morning and charged tourists money to take pictures of me. I looked pretty wild,… — Wolfgang Beltracchi Coats Copy Share Image
Did I want to spend all my time working on a painting? No, I wanted to have fun, travel, meet women and… — Wolfgang Beltracchi Artist Copy Share Image
I only painted when I felt like it and needed money. But it never really became a professional thing, even though the… — Wolfgang Beltracchi Dealer Copy Share Image
Fame never interested me. I could have exhibited more of my own works in the 1970s, but I didn't want to. It's… — Wolfgang Beltracchi Children Copy Share Image
Every philharmonic orchestra merely interprets the composer. My goal was to create new music by that composer. In doing so, I wanted… — Wolfgang Beltracchi Composer Copy Share Image
