The narrative is a challenge to keep up with, but then, great artists often invent their own syntax.

But while the archeologist searches for past meanings, the artist invents new ones.

Long before footnotes had their vogue in the 18th century, medieval artists invented a far more radical kind of marginalia.

These artists also invented perspective where things in the distance look smaller than things close up in the picture.

Nierka This new, experimental multimedia work acknowledges the logic of history: that artists rarely invent, but rediscover.

It is no revelation that he is from the Netherlands - Dutch artists more or less invented landscape imagery in the late 16th century.

Jasper Johns once said that no American artist has invented more than Mr. Rauschenberg.

I don't believe the greatest artist in the world could invent what we felt, and if he could he couldn't describe it.

But these artists didn't invent these activities.

Few artists have invented so many ways to convert the machinations of ego and id into image.