"Ladies and gentleman, by way of introduction, this is a film about trickery and fraud, about lies. Tell it by the fir…"

"Our works in stone, in paint, in print, are spared, some of them, for a few decades or a millennium or two, but every…"

"I started at the top and have been working my way down ever since."

"Paris was suffering from August. This happens every year. It shuts down, closes up, and this is the time when an inva…"

"For my next experiment ladies and gentleman, I would appreciate the loan of any small personal object form your pocke…"

"What we professional liars hope to serve is truth. I'm afraid the pompous word for that is "art"."

"[quoting a phenomenal art forger] Do you think I should confess? To what? Committing masterpieces?"

"At the very beginning, I - of all this, I did make you a promise. Remember? I did promise that for one hour, I'd tell…"

"Art, [Picasso] said, is a lie — a lie that makes us realize the truth. To the memory of that great man who will never…"

"Orson Welles – Himself"