“When bankers get together they talk about art. When artists get together, they talk about money” — Oscar Wilde
I’ve always suspected that Issac’s title has something to do with this. Apparently, that’s true. number5 just confirmed that for me. (Isaac himself just confirmed that too)
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I tend to think that how and in what manner did the bankers and the artists talk about art and money is the important thing to point out. People tend to talk about things they lack of, but sometime they also talk about what they did not appreciate of. Bankers need art to show they are noble enough, artists need more money to make their art more beautiful , some people said that in modern society the art is by the poor and for the rich, if this view is true , “When bankers get together they talk about art. When artists get together, they talk about money” only means that bankers and artists are in a different economic situation and need different things to make a better life.
我的英文不好,很難用英語完全表達自己的想法,上面的那些話見笑了!從你這里看到Oscar Wilde的這句話之后我想了很多,但是一直沒有回復.根據我一直用以思考的傅偉勛的人生十大層面的模型來看,artist和banker( 因為職業的關系 )在各自的人生層次上都是不夠完整的,一般來說, artist要比banker 有著更高的人生境界. Oscar Wilde這句話作為對人生境界的一種提示來看未嘗不可,但是具體到作為個體的個人而言(人總是具體的),這句話的參考價值似乎不是太大:有破產的banker,也有毫無成績的artist.
不當之處,請多指教!