Avant-garde Appreciators Mugs

'Projectile painting.'

"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."

"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

'I'm looking forward to parents' night. I'm going to ask these people their diet secrets.'

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

Yoko Ono

The Cremaster Cycle

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

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

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

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

The Abstract, The Modernist, The Avant-Guard.

Blend Schools

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

"The audience is really classy tonight, they are throwing quail eggs."

Dolly Varden - 'The Laughing Dolly'

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

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."

James Joyce

Cover Design for the Savoy (No. 8)

The Bland Leading the Bland

Francis Picabia

Igor Stravinsky

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

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

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

Samuel Beckett

Ave Atque Vale- Illustrates Beardsley's Translation of Carmen CI of Catullus