“Tutti i milioni di Rothschild non valgono a comperare mezz'ora.”
cap. Il codice dell'uomo onesto, massima 68
Il bene ed il male
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“Le sembianze di un uomo prudente valgono un discorso!”
Prudentis vultus etiam sermonis loco est.
Sententiae

“I governi […] hanno concetti dell'onestà diversi di quelli che valgono pei privati.”
II, 110
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Damien Hirst isn't an artist. His works may draw huge crowds [...] but they have no artistic content and are worthless as works of art. They are, therefore, worthless financially.
If you want a pickled shark in a tank, you don't have to pay the $12m Steve Cohen paid for the one selected by Hirst. You only pay that much for the artistic content that Hirst has added to it. If there isn't any, what are you buying? You could argue that you are buying an investment. But that depends on people in the future valuing the artistic content in your shark even more highly than you do. If they don't, what are you left with? A shark in a tank, which is what you bought.

ricorrente, spesso cambia le cifre
Personaggi originali, Dottor Armà
cap. III, 11, p. 171
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