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" The labour of two days, then, is that for which you ask two hundred guineas!" "No; — I ask it for the knowledge of a lifetime. "
What the Judge Thought - Page 127
by Sir Edward Abbott Parry - 1923 - 282 pages
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The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, Volume 201

1905 - 606 pages
...Whistler's is monumental. It is his answer at the trial to the Attorney-General's ' Oh, two days ! The labour of two days, then, is that for ' which you ask two hundred guineas ? ' 'No. I ASK IT FOE THE KNOWLEDGE OF A LIFETIME.' One is glad to read in the newspaper reports that there was ' applause...
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The English Illustrated Magazine, Volume 10

England - 1893 - 972 pages
...I had better say, then, that I was two days at work on it." The Attorney-General. " Oh, two days ! The labour of two days, then, is that for which you ask two hundred guineas ! " Mr. Whistler. " No, I ask it for the knowledge of a lifetime." Mr. Fowler might profitably study...
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Considerations on Painting: Lectures Given in the Year 1893 at the ...

John La Farge - Art - 1895 - 288 pages
...language for his sentiment. The tend1 Cf. Mr. Whistler's well known answer in court. " Question : ' The labour of two days, then, is that for which you ask two hundred guineas ?' Answer (Mr. Whistler) : ' No. I ask it for the knowledge of a life-time.'" Also the answer of Kiosai,...
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The Gentle Art of Making Enemies: As Pleasingly Exemplified in Many ...

James McNeill Whistler - Aesthetics - 1904 - 370 pages
...painting were not dry. I had better say then, that I was two days at work on it." " Oh, two days ! The labour of two days, then, is that for which you...No ; — I ask it for the knowledge of a lifetime." (Applause.) " You have been told that your pictures exhibit some eccentricities ? " " Yes ; often."...
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James McNeill Whistler

Hans Wolfgang Singer - 1905 - 138 pages
...counsel asked, in tones almost of indignation : " It is, in fact, for the labour of two days, then, that you ask two hundred guineas ! " " No ; I ask it for the knowledge of a lifetime." By this answer he implied, in the most brilliant fashion, that he too duly appreciated earnest labour...
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The Chautauquan: Organ of the Chautauqua Literary and ..., Volumes 49-50

1906 - 950 pages
...if the painting were not dry. I had better say then I was two days at work on it." "Oh, two days ! The labour of two days then is that for which you..."No; — I ask it for the knowledge of a lifetime." (Applause.) "You have been told that your pictures exhibit some eccentricities ?" "Yes, often." (Laughter.)...
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The Works of John Ruskin, Volume 29

John Ruskin - 1907 - 774 pages
...me," asked the Attorney1 General, " how long it took you to knock off that Nocturne ? " " Two days." "The labour of two days, then, is that for which you..." No ; I ask it for the knowledge of a lifetime." r- Burne-Jones, on whose evidence Ruskin chiefly relied, had been i placed in a position of much delicacy...
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The Chautauquan: Organ of the Chautauqua Literary and Scientific ..., Volume 50

Theodore L. Flood, Frank Chapin Bray - Chautauquas - 1908 - 490 pages
...if the painting were not dry. I had better say then I was two days at work on it." "Oh, two days ! The labour of two days then is that for which you..."No; — I ask it for the knowledge of a lifetime." (Applause.) "You have been told that your pictures exhibit some eccentricities ?" "Yes, often." (Laughter.)...
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The Chautauquan: a weekly newsmagazine, Volumes 50-51

1908 - 974 pages
...if the painting were not dry. I had better say then I was two days at work on it." "Oh, two days ! The labour of two days then is that for which you..."No; — I ask it for the knowledge of a lifetime." (Applause.) "You have been told that your pictures exhibit some eccentricities?" "Yes, often." (Laughter.)...
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Whistler

T. Martin Wood - 1908 - 108 pages
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