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Reminds me of something I overheard an older artist say when dealing with a difficult customer who didn't want to pay the asking price for one of her paintings.
by ideonexus 9y ago
Reminds me of something I overheard an older artist say when dealing with a difficult customer who didn't want to pay the asking price for one of her paintings. When the customer demanded, "Well how long did it take you to paint it?" The artist replied, "My whole life."
- elcapitan 9y agoI have read that anecdote multiple times with Picasso being the artist, but as he also allegedly said "Good artists copy, great artists steal." ;)
- grasshopperpurp 9y agoSpeaking of :^) https://quoteinvestigator.com/2013/03/06/artists-steal/ https://quoteinvestigator.com/2013/03/06/artists-steal/
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- dang 9y agoThe quote goes back to James Whistler when he was being cross-examined at a trial. He sued a journalist for libel who had written that he "never expected to hear a coxcomb ask two hundred guineas for flinging a pot of paint in the public’s face"—a pretty good line in its own right, but unfortunately for the journalist, he was up against a wit with superpowers. The exchange at trial: Lawyer: Oh, two days! The labour of two days, then, is that for which you ask two hundred guineas!” Whistler No;—I ask it for the knowledge of a lifetime. Whistler won the trial, was awarded a farthing, and had to pay his own legal fees. https://quoteinvestigator.com/2018/01/14/time-art/ https://quoteinvestigator.com/2018/01/14/time-art/ https://quoteinvestigator.com/2018/01/12/lifetime/ https://quoteinvestigator.com/2018/01/12/lifetime/
- the-dude 9y agoThere is a tech equivalent : https://www.snopes.com/business/genius/where.asp https://www.snopes.com/business/genius/where.asp