Don't run down dyed hair and painted faces. There is an extraordinary charm in them, sometimes.
There was blood on the painted feet, as though the thing had dripped--blood even on the hand that had not held the knife.
What the worm was to the corpse, his sins would be to the painted image on the canvas.
“Tourists moved over the piazza like drugged insects on a painted plate”
Imagination is the key to my lyrics. The rest is painted with a little science fiction.