Avant-garde Follower Gifts

"Going rimless, with raw, jagged edges, is very hot right now."

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

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

'It's cutting edge theatre.'

"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.'"

"Avant-garde jazz hands"

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

The Cremaster Cycle

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.'

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

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

"I'm outside the fancy dress shop...."

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

"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."

Richard Wagner's other Ring Cycle.

Cover Design for the Savoy (No. 8)

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

James Joyce

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

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

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

A retriever comes back to a hunter with Brancusi's 'Bird in Space'."

The Death of Pierrot

"Once upon a time there were these three little pigs. There was a neurotic little pig, a psychotic little pig, and a normal little pig . . . ."

Tracey Emin