Possible Clues:

• That's descriptive, in a manner of speaking, of how I am a grey mixture
• Reflective, perhaps, in no literal sense
• Single line about learned man's illustrative effects
• Use of language to produce pictures in the mind
• Pictures of one holy mother holding the ends of swaddling attire
• I'm gayer (anag)
• Evocative writing, say
• Pictures in general
• Pictures of Germany taken by current prime minister
• Language that paints mental pictures