On Agatharchus, the scene painter, boasting of his rapidity of execution, Zeuxis quietly remarked thus. In Latin, Pingo in æternitatem.—"I paint for posterity." In Plutarch, Moralia, p. 113 (De Amicorum Multitudine, 5, p. 94f), the rejoinder is reported as: Ὁμολογῶ ἐν πολλῷ χρόνῳ γράφειν, καὶ γὰρ εἰς πολύν—"I confess I take a long time, but then I paint for a long time."https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Parallel_Lives