"What makes him to the king of forgery is that he went for the most difficult paintings... The problems in his paintings is complicated. You can ask yourself on who is the real forger: Jackson Pollock who throws paint on the canvas, or he who does a new Vermeer. A grown up man who paints something more childish than a child, and the other who can't survive without doing forgery? Here lies the problem. If Van Meegeren had lived in an other time, the time of the gifted - his talent and abilities would have a value."
- Odd Nerdrum

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