Madness string 16462

Random mermaid
It's hard to hate people who are a long way away. You forget how dreadful they are. But you see a neighbour's warts every day.

Not all the paintings spoke to her. She said they would hide themselves when there were large crowds. She said there were evil paintings, too. It could be very dangerous to go inside those. I wonder if that was a reflection of the artist's state of mind...