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Forgers can start with the same photographic images Warhol did, and sometimes knock off silkscreens only an expert can distinguish from the originals.

— Michael Shnayerson

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✓Similar Perspectives

Imitation, if it is not forgery, is a fine thing. It stems from a generous impulse, and a realistic sense of what can and cannot be done.

— James Fenton

Well I think always, when you remake films, I always think the first one is most original, authentic.

— Bai Ling

I wonder if some artists determine their entire identity through that which they create. How dangerous! Imagine if they were to stop creating!

— Josh Malerman

Restorers of paintings and pottery follow a code of conduct in their work to distinguish the original material from what they are adding later.

— Antony Beevor

The counterfeit and counterpart of Nature is reproduced in art.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The print on canvas is the closest to the original work. I personally sign them as well.

— Dwayne Hickman

A photocopier is a camera in its own right. I was fortunate to grow up in the time and culture that I did. I was allowed to develop an awareness that the art that really moves me is actually based on an original image.

— Wolfgang Tillmans

I counterfeited Mark Kostabi's artworks. During the eighties, Mark didn't paint his own paintings. Instead, he had other artists painting them, and he just added his signature. So what I did was to use some of the same painters, and signed his name myself.

— Andy Behrman

✗Opposing Perspectives

Every document, apparently ancient, coming from the proper repository or custody, and bearing on its face no evident marks of forger, the law presumes to be genuine, and devolves on the opposing party the burden of proving it to be otherwise.

— Simon Greenleaf

Originality depends only on the character of the drawing and the vision peculiar to each artist.

— Georges Seurat