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Jon Stewart breaks down the $135 million Gustav Klimt’s Adele Bloch-Bauer I sold for at auction (The Daily Show, June 21, 2006)

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Two quotes I will take away from this clip come from David Ross, former director of the Whitney Museum.
3:52 - “Works of art are essentially a function of intention. If you intend to make a work of art, it may not be very good, but your intention trumps everything.”
4:09 - “It starts at the artist’s intention. It begins there. No one else can tell someone it’s art until the artist says, ‘I have made a work of art.’”

Also: Ed Colbert made a good point about the “essence” of the original photograph.