Attorney-General: "The labour of two days, then, is that for which you ask two hundred guineas?"
Whistler: "No; I ask it for the knowledge of a lifetime."
Attorney-General: "You don't approve of criticism?"
Whistler: "I should not disapprove in any way of technical criticism by a man whose life is passed in the practice of the science which he criticises; but for the opinion of a man whose life is not so passed, I would have as little regard as you would if he expressed an opinion on law."
Attorney-General: "You expect to be criticised?"
Whistler: "Yes, certainly; and I do not expect to be affected by it until it comes to be a case of this kind."
The Nocturne, the Blue and Silver, was then produced.
Whistler: "It represents Battersea Bridge by moonlight."
The Judge: "Is this part of the picture at the top Old Battersea Bridge? Are those figures on the top of the bridge intended for people?"
Whistler: "They are just what you like."