An aphorism is nothing else but the slightest
QUOTES AND APHORISMS ON FORGERY
The handwriting on the wall may be a forgery.
Ralph Hodgson (1871-1962, British poet)
The forger was too
exacting, too superficial. Only the real artist has the false
beginning. Dominic Smith To an untrained eye,
need and love were as easily mistaken for each other as the real
master's painting and a forgery. Deb Caletti 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 Everything that
glitters more than gold is not gold. Raheel Farooq Criminals look at
identity theft and say only 1 in 700 criminals gets convicted of it.
And they look at check forgery and they know that for every 1,400
forgers arrested, only about 123 get convicted and about 26 go to
jail. So the rewards are great, but the risks are very slim. So
that's one of the reasons that make it very popular. Frank Abagnale Forgery, being the
weirdest form of creativity there is, like antiques, costs lives.
Why is it that antiques demand sacrificial victims? Dunno, but if
they don't get enough, forgery does. You want proof? Here it is:
Once a faker's found out, he dies. Truly. It always happens. Jonathan Gash In other words, if a
patent forgery like the "Protocols of the Elders of Zion" is
believed by so many people that it can become the text of a whole
political movement, the task of the historian is no longer to
discover a forgery. Certainly it is not to invent explanations which
dismiss the chief political and historical facts of the matter: that
the forgery is being believed. This fact is more important than the
(historically speaking, secondary) circumstance that it is a
forgery. Hannah Arendt
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