Tim's Vermeer Page #7

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they tell you a great deal.

You've made a document

that's proving something, it is.

It's fascinating.

I mean, you set out to do some research.

I think you've succeeded and, well,

you've shown it's possible to do it.

- As I say, if you've recorded it very well...

- Yeah, yeah.

I think it might disturb

quite a lot of people.

- I certainly hope so.

- Which is fine, that's fine. Why not?

My friend Tim painted a Vermeer.

In a warehouse, in San Antonio.

He painted a Vermeer.

And is Tim an artist,

or is Tim an inventor?

I think the problem is not trying

to pick one of those two for Tim to be,

but the problem is

that we have that distinction.

What Tim has done

is given us an image of Vermeer

as a man who is much more real,

and in that way much more amazing.

I mean, unfathomable genius

doesn't really mean anything.

Now he's a fathomable genius.

If there's any great merit in this picture

as a work of art, it's Vermeer's.

It's Vermeer's composition

and it's Vermeer's invention.

It's just been forgotten for 350 years.

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