To paint is a possessing rather than a picturing.
“Painting seems like some kind of peculiar miracle that I need to have again and again.”
“In fact, the room was so quiet you might have heard a drop of paint splash.”
“I'm interested in all kinds of pictures, however they are made, with cameras, with paint brushes, with computers, with anything.”
“Nick Swardson used to have birthday paint parties. They were phenomenal.”
“Of all the rabbinic sages of antiquity, perhaps none was more influential or famous than Rabbi Akiva.”