ם Whistler: "The Knowledge of a Lifetime". A quotation collection has this good economics quotation from Whistler's lawsuit against the critic Ruskin, who said one of his Nocturne paintings was overpriced.
Whistler: Let us say then, how long did I take to 'knock off'--I think that is it--to knock off that Nocturne; well, as well as I remember, about a day . . . I may have still put a few more touches to it the next day if the painting were not dry. I had better say, then, that I was two days at work on it.[ http://php.indiana.edu/~erasmuse/w/04.01.26f.htm . Erasmusen@yahoo.com. ]Attorney-General: The labor of two days then, is that for which you ask two hundred guineas?
Whistler: No, I ask it for the knowledge of a lifetime.
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