In the libel suit he brought in 1878 against John Ruskin, the Victorian painter James McNeill Whistler was asked under cross-examination how he justified charging 200 guineas for a painting of a London firework display that took him two days to finish. “I ask it for the knowledge of a lifetime,” Whistler declared.
在1878年對約翰?拉斯金(John Ruskin)提起的誹謗訴訟中，維多利亞時代畫家詹姆斯?麥克尼爾?惠斯勒(James McNeill Whistler)在接受交叉詢問時被問道，他給一幅兩天時間完成的倫敦煙花表演畫作要價200幾尼（英國舊時貨幣——譯者注）的理由是什么。惠斯勒稱：“我以一生的知識做此定價?！?/p>
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