Tyler Cowen: belief

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…His friends didn’t think so. What is good taste in art? I think he had excellent taste. [laughter] He bought this Cezanne apples sketch before people understood how wonderful they are. Also, Degas ballerinas. He didn’t pay that much for them. Cezanne and Degas were not undiscovered artists at that time. No, he did get them in a fire sale, literally. He went to Paris, and the Germans were getting close. They were under bombardment. That’s why they were liquidating it. I like Cezanne and Degas as much as the next guy. I think his friends were so fussy. They were envious of his social position. They couldn’t do the economic work that he did. It just was over their heads, so art was their thing. They were always telling him he had bad taste, but those apples were pretty good in the Cezanne. What’s the museum in Philadelphia that there was such a fine —…

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