Avant-garde Admirers Gifts

Tracey Emin's work My Bed, alongside Marcel Duchamp's urinal (titled Fountain). Duchamp referred to his works as 'readymades'. Emin's work is 'unmade'.

"Welcome to Off-Off-Off Broadway."

Turd - 'It's one of a kind.'

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

Jazz is Invented

'Projectile painting.'

"Well, yes, it's not what you would call a practical nest, but my wife insisted on using an architect..."

"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."

"We tried 'Baby Mozart,' but he prefers 'Baby John Cage.'"

A Footnote - Self Portrait of Beardsley, Bound to the God of Nature

"Avant-garde jazz hands"

When at a loss for words Colin would often resort to communicating through the medium of contemporary dance.

Yoko Ono

The Cremaster Cycle

'Isn't that wonderful? We both suffer from intellectual angst!'

The revolution that hit Hollywood hardest:The Thinking Pictures."

'I don't know whether to put it in for the Turner Prize or go for the Poet Laureate.'

'How can they call it modern art when it's 100 year's old?'

The Abstract, The Modernist, The Avant-Guard.

'I saw an offbeat play the other night. No one took off their clothes.'

"I can deal with the conceptual art and electronic music, but what are these hors d'oeuvres supposed to be."

Metropolitan Art Center current exhibit: Father of the Finger-In-Your-Eye School of Modern Art.

Samuel Beckett

"Please turn on your cell phones."

"Tonight the part normally played by the audience will be played by actors playing the part of the audience."

Cover Design for the Savoy (No. 8)

'As a hairdresser, I must say you take it a bit far.'

Francis Picabia

'God, it's a relief to get away from that exhibition of a bit.'

James Joyce

The Bland Leading the Bland

Samuel Beckett

Igor Stravinsky

"No sitting on the art, ma'am."

Artist uses connect-the-dots canvas to paint nude model.