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“Instead of an art thief, Breitwieser prefers to be thought of as an art collector with an unorthodox acquisition style. Or, if you will, he’d like to be called an art liberator.”
― Michael Finkel, The Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession

“Mass resistance was possible only when people believed they had the collective capacity to change things. For poor people, this required identifying with the oppressed, and counting yourself among them”
― Matthew Desmond, Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City

“Beauty, to be unpoetic but precise, is in the medial orbital-frontal cortex of the beholder.”
― Michael Finkel, The Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession

“He takes only works that stir him emotionally, and seldom the most valuable piece in a place. He feels no remorse when he steals because museums, in his deviant view, are really just prisons for art.”
― Michael Finkel, The Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession