Sentence examples for except to paint from inspiring English sources

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I have no ambitions, except to paint.

Aristotle with a Bust of Homer was commissioned by Don Antonio Ruffo, Sicilian nobleman, art collector, and patron of Rembrandt, without specific guidance, except to paint a philosopher.

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He has survived three marriages, two bouts of lung cancer, H.I.V. infection, arteriosclerosis, homelessness, poverty and depression, so at 63 Mr. Monceaux knows better than to rely on success, or much of anything, really, except his drive to paint.

I had no time remaining to paint, except a couple of weeks during the semester break.

A little after 8 PM, it seemed like Felicity's moment of truth was near Andy had run out of skin to paint except for what was being covered by her sheer underwear.

So he did a radical thing: he became a conservative, sort of, devoting himself to painting nudes, except that his nudes were not the traditional idealized bodies but real people with sallow flesh, numbed by the boredom of posing in a studio.

For sheer inconvenience, installing sprinklers is roughly equivalent to painting your apartment, except that it takes longer, makes more noise and generates more dust, including some from ancient layers of lead paint being drilled to make holes for pipes.

I had done nothing during the art exam except to flick paint at people and generally draw attention to myself, because I was deeply in love with the biology mistress, who was invigilating.

Subsequent epidemiological research has failed to replicate most of these consistently excepting paternal exposure to paints, and to hydrocarbons or exhaust fumes, which have shown consistently raised risks (Colt and Blair, 1998; Cordier, 2008) as, to a lesser extent, have pesticides (Infante-Rivard and Weichenthal, 2007).

Nothing because Vincent never sought money, except to eat and paint.

"If I were to compare it to painting, it would be a glazing technique except with graphite instead of transparent paint.

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