The inexpressible, unpaintable `tick' in the unconscious.    From Wordnet, Princeton University. 

Little painters are always choosing their subjects and explaining that this or that may be pretty or interesting, but they will tell you it is "unpaintable".    From Wordnik.com.  [Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 06 Little Journeys to the Homes of Eminent Artists] Reference

When Reckage asked Rennes whether he found Miss Carillon "unpaintable," the artist was conscious of a swift, piercing emotion, which passed, indeed, but left an ache.    From Wordnik.com.  [Robert Orange Being a Continuation of the History of Robert Orange] Reference

Andy's face was an almost unpaintable mixture of glee and understanding.    From Wordnik.com.  [They didn’t read Pitchfork or Stereogum or Gorilla vs. Bear or Hipster Runoff] Reference

Second, Mr. Tuymans has dealt with some of the most dire episodes of modern history — notably the unspeakable (and unpaintable?) deeds of Nazi Germany, the racist cruelties of European colonialism, and 9/11 and its after-effects — all of which are represented here.    From Wordnik.com.  [Can My Colleagues Be Serious?] Reference

'Confest: and so farewell to unpaintable Lynmouth!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Prose Idylls, New and Old] Reference

My brother Hercy, who paints a little, always declared that Agnes was unpaintable.    From Wordnik.com.  [Robert Orange Being a Continuation of the History of Robert Orange] Reference

But 'tis a thing unpaintable, indescribable, as indescribable as the perfume of a rose.    From Wordnik.com.  [My Friend Prospero] Reference

Sometimes you'll paint moving objects, or find messages written in unpaintable letters.    From Wordnik.com.  [Computer And Video Games] Reference

She pressed his arm, while a score of unpaintable, delicate hues stained her cheeks in rapid transition.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Voyage to Arcturus] Reference

Twice he was heaved, kicked, and shouldered back again into the unpaintable inferno of a hotly contested charge.    From Wordnik.com.  [Life's Handicap] Reference

But the sublimest of doctrines sometimes prove to be utterly unpaintable, and certainly the tenets to which Overbeck gave a super-sensuous turn, in the end perplexed and clouded his art.    From Wordnik.com.  [Overbeck] Reference

Distance upon distance, one mountain range rising above another, almost in endless succession, the various stages showing infinite gradation of colour -- subtle, distracting, absolutely unpaintable!.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Roof of France] Reference

Lightmark had found it quite useless to protest, well as he knew that the ordinary French milliner can be warranted to succeed in producing a garment almost as unpaintable as a masculine black frock-coat.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Comedy of Masks A Novel] Reference

This abortive miracle on canvas left on my mind, when seen in the studio, a very painful impression, and sound critics -- Zahn and others -- pronounce the subject as unpaintable, and the work most unfortunate.    From Wordnik.com.  [Overbeck] Reference

IT was an hour before sunrise at Tolchaco and Bauer had awakened from a restful sleep and from the place where he lay in the Council Hogan he noted with pure enjoyment the splendid colour of the sky framed in the opening, the exquisite blending from the pearly grey into the unpaintable, soft moving colours that he had looked at with growing awe during many wonderful mornings in July.    From Wordnik.com.  [The High Calling] Reference

The unpaintable huge mountain heads and shoulders, and dark large woods and rushing torrents, which have never found, and never will find, adequate representation in art, are far more fascinating to me than those exquisite, ready-made pictures that meet one at every quarter of a mile in Italy; with the ruined, tumble-down houses and degraded-looking population, forming always to me painful features in the landscape.    From Wordnik.com.  [Further Records, 1848-1883: A Series of Letters] Reference

That great white pride of love in mourning such as only here in all the round of our little world lifts itself to the stars, the unpaintable, indescribable Taj Mahal.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Pool in the Desert] Reference

Do you find her unpaintable? ".    From Wordnik.com.  [Robert Orange Being a Continuation of the History of Robert Orange] Reference