Peter Robb > Quotes

“It was the prerogative of the powerful to betray their servants. You played their game or you played your own. The end was the same.”
― Peter Robb, M: The Man Who Became Caravaggio

“the pope had granted the accademia di San Luca the annual right – on saint Luke’s day – to free a condemned man.”
― Peter Robb, M: The Man Who Became Caravaggio

“like a mafioso under interrogation. The mafia response to the law was always to deny everything. Deny totally.”
― Peter Robb, Midnight In Sicily: On Art, Feed, History, Travel and la Cosa Nostra

“M got into difficulties. Somebody – and since the client was dead it wasn’t clear who – didn’t like his two paintings.”
― Peter Robb, M: The Man Who Became Caravaggio

“Beyond a certain threshold, power erases embarrassment”
― Peter Robb, Midnight in Sicily

“I can’t swallow Gregori’s insistent proposal of the Toothpuller as M’s and I think M used help on the second versions of early paintings like Lute Player II.”
― Peter Robb, M: The Man Who Became Caravaggio

“CUTTING HIS BEATITUDE down to size on canvas and throwing rocks through his landlady’s window weren’t all M was doing on his return to Rome”
― Peter Robb, M: The Man Who Became Caravaggio

“No effete dauber M.”
― Peter Robb, M: The Man Who Became Caravaggio