Weekend Words: Fake
Now that the Feds have dropped an anvil on Glafira Rosales, the mysterious art dealer who's been the target of lawsuits over alleged forgeries of Abstract Expressionist paintings, charging her with tax fraud, the question still remains: are the artworks fake?
Now that the Feds have dropped an anvil on Glafira Rosales, the mysterious art dealer who’s been the target of lawsuits over alleged forgeries of Abstract Expressionist paintings, charging her with tax fraud, the question still remains: are the artworks fake?
“Anything that consoles is fake.”
—Iris Murdoch, from Prayer and the Pursuit of Happiness
“The land wasn’t immediately appealing; we built it
Partly over with fake ruins, in the image of ourselves:
An arch that terminates in mid-keystone, a crumbling stone pier
For laundresses, an open-air theater, never completed
And only partially designed.”
—John Ashbery, from “Pyrography”
“Nothing is so easy to fake as the inner vision.”
—Robertson Davies
“The fact that I have no remedy for all the sorrows of the world is no reason for my accepting yours. It simply supports the strong probability that yours is a fake.”
—H. L. Mencken
“My husband gave me a necklace. It’s fake. I requested fake. Maybe I’m paranoid, but in this day and age, I don’t want something around my neck that’s worth more than my head.”
—Rita Rudner
“The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you’ve got it made.”
—Groucho Marx
“One should judge a man mainly from his depravities. Virtues can be faked. Depravities are real.”
—Klaus Kinski
“No matter where or what, there are makers, takers, and fakers.”
—Robert A. Heinlein
“Fake is as old as the Eden tree.”
—Orson Welles
