So for every Picasso, there's a Cezanne, who if you go to Le Musee d'Orsay and you look at all of his greatest works, they're all painted in his 50s and 60s, or for every Melville who writes Moby Dick at 28 or 29, there is a Mark Twain who writes 'Huckleberry Finn' in his late 40s or early 50s.

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Follow the stars and you're confronted by row upon row of wrapping paper, decorative ribbons and hand-painted Nativity sets.

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The sentiments may be intimate, but they're painted in broad enough strokes to let listeners fill in the blanks and suit their own purposes.

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As soon as I got to work, I wrote a fairly irate but detailed email, as a private citizen rather than a journalist, to the Connect to Cardiff (C2C) online service, pointing out the mayhem the changes were causing and asking for warning signs to be put up straightaway as a minimum until the lines could be re-painted.

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In British elections we're used to what we call "battle buses", cheerfully painted wagons, festooned with party slogans and colours.

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