51.   We have young artists doing what young artists always do to get attention.

52.   What could those imported, nameless Byzantine mosaic artists have done for an encore?

53.   When the artists do the talking, something fascinating happens.

54.   What were these artists doing with the rival medium?

55.   When he finishes, he places his signature somewhere inside the character, just as an artist would do on a work of art.

56.   Where a writer basically sits alone at a desk, an artist does his thing amid a supporting cast of patrons, models, dealers and assistants.

57.   Your work may differ in degree, but it is not different in kind from what every artist does.

58.   Brodsky never came back to visit his homeland after the Soviet collapse, as many emigre artists did.

59.   Can the West receive an Eastern concept of art, and what will the artists do with it?

60.   It feels to me as if he stands in relationship to the world as the artist does.