Tuesday, February 05, 2013

Talking books

“You can’t imagine what it’s like to paint like – Bernard Tufts. His painting hasn’t developed as much. It’s as if I’m faking Tufts now because I’m painting the same Tufts as I did five years ago! In a way, I have to make more of an effort to be myself than I do to be Derwatt."
Bernard Tufts, artist and forger of Derwatt paintings in Patricia Highsmith’s Ripley Under ground