The vast majority of English folk cannot and will not consider a picture as a picture, apart from any story which it may be supposed to tell. (James McNeill Whistler)

The vast majority of English folk cannot and will not consider a picture as a picture, apart from any story which it may be supposed to tell.

James McNeill Whistler

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