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Paul Graham: uncertainty

9 Aug 2023 Conversations with Tyler Paul Graham on Ambition, Art, and Evaluating Talent

“I don’t know. I’m now going to look. I never thought about this, but I was just looking at some Tintorettos.”

— Paul Graham

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Speaker
Paul Graham
Attribution
Verified speaker
Claim type
uncertainty
Recorded
9 Aug 2023
Publisher
Conversations with Tyler

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…Well, there are two of you. Neither of you would agree with Vasari. I don’t know. I’m now going to look. I never thought about this, but I was just looking at some Tintorettos. I was just in Venice, looking at the Scuola Grande di San Marco, where all those Tintorettos are, and they were so dirty. It was hard to tell [laughs] what the paintings actually looked like, [laughs] but I’m going to go look. I’m going to go look and see if they seem freakish. Paul Graham, thank you very much.…

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