Likely apocryphal [1], possibly inspired by a true story from 1878 about a court case involving well-known painter James McNeill Whistler [2]: > "Oh, two days!

Likely apocryphal [1], possibly inspired by a true story from 1878 about a court case involving well-known painter James McNeill Whistler [2]: > "Oh, two days! The labour of two days, then, is that for which you ask two hundred guineas!" > "No;-I ask it for the knowledge of a lifetime." [1] https://quoteinvestigator.com/2018/01/14/time-art/ https://quoteinvestigator.com/2018/01/14/time-art/ [2] https://quoteinvestigator.com/2018/01/12/lifetime/ https://quoteinvestigator.com/2018/01/12/lifetime/