Avant-garde Scholar Pillows

"I wish they'd educate us with something besides school."

"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."

'Projectile painting.'

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

"Avant-garde jazz hands"

"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."

'It's cutting edge theatre.'

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

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

Yoko Ono

'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.

Blend Schools

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

'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."

Samuel Beckett

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

"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.

James Joyce

Cover Design for the Savoy (No. 8)

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

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

Francis Picabia

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

The Bland Leading the Bland

Samuel Beckett

Igor Stravinsky

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

Pants Uglifier!