1.   If I take on an artist, for example, I need to think they will have a future.

2.   But the fact they exist demonstrates how seriously the untutored artist is taken these days.

3.   How do you take an artist like Boucher and make it a big draw?

4.   Lady Macbeth, too, takes the artist toward a haunted destination.

5.   Natural science has inspired Western artists forever, obviously, and for centuries Western explorers took artists on expeditions.

6.   Science has taken artists in many new directions.

7.   Sometimes, it takes an artist.

8.   The aesthetics of ingratiation take an artist only so far, and this is subject matter with far greater needs.

9.   The artist was taken straight from his barbecued chicken plate to jail, where he spent the next three nights locked up, wondering what else could go wrong.

10.   Yet we tend to take American artists for granted and give the benefit of the doubt to the English.