Abstract Musings Mugs

Parmenides

'It's called 'Oh Bugger It!' if you must know!'

"Abstract Expressionism is definitely right for me at this stage of my career."

Wolf Danny With "Random""The work must be tantamount to mayhem. Making an insatiable public confused, indifferent, annoyed—this is the premise on which rests my deliberately vacuous oeuvre."

Instructional guide to scribbling

"No, ma'am. I'm not sure what the difference is between being creative or just plain weird."

"I'm in a catch-23 situation."

Pastorius wonders why.

Mr. Empirical With "Antarctica""Small is hostile. Rage contributes to shift away from literality. I'm off to True Value Hardware for some more self-reference tools."

That midnight hour when fleeting memories come home to roost.

bird interprets modern art

"I feel your pain."

"Is it me, or is Jasper Johns a genius?" "Über-genius, Larry. Über!"

It's a call from Tate modern.

'Projectile painting.'

Wagging Dog

Clever visual metaphor used to personify the abstract concept of thought and memory.

'No, Timmy, we are not supposed to connect them.'

Large, wrinkly

"He gets easily abstracted."

"I condensed my painting to the pure essence of the message. What helps me a lot is the fact that I've got nothing to say at all."

Higher wisdom...

"I was going to call it 'Empty Plinth', but then I settled on 'Winter's Smile'...I wanted to capture the 'nothingness' of an 'absence of anything'..."

Jackson Pollock: abstract; Picasso: cubism; Bobby: eight year old

"I just cleaned that glass! How can it already be covered in nose prints?!"

"Baby Jackson Pollock"

'Wow, talk about genius!'

Admissions test for the Danbury Institute of Philosophy

The Cremaster Cycle

Surreal ale

'I'm going to add to the confusion. I'm going to sign my name upside-down.'

How to get from A to Z. Right brain versus left brain.