1.   It is plain that, in the long run, the gentle art of compromise has much to recommend it.

2.   Unlike old-fashioned narrative history, art has no Decisive battles, no international treaties, and no changes of government.

3.   An art fair has an atmosphere all its own, alternately oppressive and stimulating, and weird either way.

4.   And of course art does not have to be a literal rendition of events.

5.   As a reminder that art has a way of changing places, the odor of dead sea creatures had replaced any vestige of glue or paper during my visit.

6.   Breakthrough art always has trouble arranging its start-up financing.

7.   African art had had a big impact on Picasso.

8.   But contemporary art as such had no home.

9.   But cartoon art has a vast adult following in Belgium and France.

10.   But it was also a world in which piety was ingrained and art had an implicit spiritual dimension.