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35: Don't DeExtinct the Dodo, Humans vs Computers, and Art Forgery

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The Power of Art Comes From Your Mind

I used to work in an auction house that sold fine art paintings. We had like, forgeries come through. I think the power of art does come from yourself ultimately every time. Because all that beautiful stuff is still valid, but it comes from yourself. And so I dawned the mask and the cape and I became the Forger! Han Van Migeren was born in the Netherlands in 1889. He grew up to study at St. Delve Technical College and Royal Academy of Art at the Hague. But he grew bitter when critics said he was simply imitating the old masters. Oh! Van Migeren is commented as saying, driven to a state of anxiety and depression due to the

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