What matters is not what you paint but what your hand dances. The painting is only a notation of the dance of the hand, of the gesture of love. (John Diamond (doctor))

What matters is not what you paint but what your hand dances. The painting is only a notation of the dance of the hand, of the gesture of love.

John Diamond (doctor)

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