When I lecture on crying, I ask my audience to let me know, by a show of hands, which art forms most move them to tears.

当我做关于哭泣的演讲时，我请观众举手告诉我，哪些艺术形式最能使他们感动流泪。

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Unfortunately, that may be too much to ask from those who seek to maintain and control the art establishment.

不幸的是，对于那些努力维持和管理艺术机构的人来说，这可能要求得太多了。

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Then, once a year, it pauses to ask: "But is it art?"

然后，他每年一度地停下来问：“它是艺术作品吗？”

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And that I think may be a little bit - - that's a metaphor in itself - that may be a little bit much to ask of a work of art.

但我认为这个要求,我说的本身也是一个比喻-,对于一个艺术作品来说有些太多了。

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On a slightly smaller scale, there's the huge Siemens breaker I saw at the Bonneville Power Administration. (If you're thinking of buying one as an art object, ask your dealer for a Siemens 72.5 kV SF6 sulfur hexafluoride power circuit breaker).

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More recently, I started to ask the question, if the art of investing is really about identifying great talent early, then lately I feel like I'm working at the wrong abstraction layer.

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Of course there are the common questions being asked, such as whether or not these pieces qualify as art and whether it's ok to replace the craftsmen with machines (you know, the same questions people ask every time a new "art" technology comes out).

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