1 I never saw this great-uncle but I'm supposed to look like him--with special reference to the rather hard-boiled painting that hangs in Father's office.
2 Rather a stately house of its kind, but dolefully in want of painting, and with dirty windows.
3 I never saw, in any painting or reality, horror and compassion so impressively blended.
4 Over the easy chair there hung in a gold frame an oval portrait of Anna, a fine painting by a celebrated artist.
5 After trying various subjects of conversation, she got him upon painting, of which he talked very well, and she listened to him attentively.
6 He painted studies from nature under the guidance of an Italian professor of painting, and studied mediaeval Italian life.
7 He knew that by this term was understood a mechanical facility for painting or drawing, entirely apart from its subject.
8 He knew that Vronsky could not be prevented from amusing himself with painting; he knew that he and all dilettanti had a perfect right to paint what they liked, but it was distasteful to him.
9 He had enough taste for painting to be unable to finish his picture.
10 With his characteristic decision, without explanation or apology, he simply ceased working at painting.
11 Although they were still at work on the cornices outside and were painting on the ground floor, upstairs almost all the rooms were finished.
12 Pestsov, who was standing beside him, was talking to him almost all the time, condemning the music for its excessive affected assumption of simplicity, and comparing it with the simplicity of the Pre-Raphaelites in painting.
13 You never open your lips while you are painting, and it is horribly dull standing on a platform and trying to look pleasant.
14 When I am painting, I can't think of anything else.
15 I have never been in better form for painting than I am to-day.