Sentence examples for there were paintings from inspiring English sources

"Artsy", my mom would have called it, meaning there were paintings on the walls, but they weren't all pretty.

I think Hana made her money by dealing in art — there were paintings on all the walls — though some of the phone calls that came for her seemed to be related to the film business.

It was as if there were paintings within the paintings, like stories within a story.

There were paintings and some small terra-cotta sculptures in another room.

"There were paintings that were not just Picassos, but Picasso's Picassos.

And for the men's quarters, there were paintings of bamboo and orchards.

In the rooms without views there are paintings of views.

And, of course there are paintings showing rows of high-heeled shoes or sunglasses.

In the eighteenth century there are paintings of God, and paintings of the gods, but there are no paintings that might be God or the gods, or paintings in which heaven can be occupied by just anyone.

There are paintings from the 1990's that could have been painted before World War I.

There are paintings for novels by Erskine Caldwell, Alberto Moravia, Mickey Spillane and John O'Hara.