“John Ruskin: 'The labour of two days is that for which you ask two hundred guineas?'
Whistler: 'No. I ask it for the knowledge I have gained in the work of a lifetime.”

— James McNeill Whistler

Whistler v. Ruskin (1878)
1870 - 1903

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