"I am a free man he boasted. I live by the sweat of my pen. I need not copy Boccaccio or Petrarch. Let others worry about style and cease to be themselves. Without a master, without a model, without a guide, without artifice, I go to work and earn my living,  my well-being and my fame. With a goose quill and a few sheets of paper I mock the universe."

Titian