Mcneill Whistler

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    “Ruskin’s counsel: The labour of two days ... is that for which you ask two hundred guineas?
    Whistler: No: I ask it for the knowledge of a lifetime.”
    —James Mcneill Whistler (1834–1903)

    “Ruskin’s counsel: The labour of two days ... is that for which you ask two hundred guineas?
    Whistler: No: I ask it for the knowledge of a lifetime.”
    —James Mcneill Whistler (1834–1903)

    “To say of a picture, as is often said in its praise, that it shows great and earnest labour, is to say that it is incomplete and unfit for view.”
    —James Mcneill Whistler (1834–1903)