I envy the poet. He is encouraged toward drunkenness and wallows with nubile wenches while the painter must endure wretchedness and pain for his art.
Dutch Golden Age painter
Attributed, from 'R.v.R.: Being an Account of the Last Years and the Death of One Rembrandt Harmenszoon Van Rijn' by Hendrik Willem van Loon
1660s (approx.)
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