
"I don't know this one."
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"I don't know this one."
Sad Songs.
'Because Elvis is FULL of philosophical insights.'
"Who was it - Dylan? Jagger? The 'you can't always get what you want' guy. Well, he was right."
'There's nothing on.'
"Is it me, or is Jasper Johns a genius?" "Über-genius, Larry. Über!"
"The raw material was all around me: That's how I got started as a sculptor..."
"Sarah's grades are excellent. She got A+ in 'Yogi Berra: Philosopher or Fall Guy?,' A in 'Dollars and Scents: An Analysis of Post-Vietnam Perfume Advertising,' A in 'The Final Four as Last Judgment: The N.C.A.A. Tournament from a Religious Perspective,'
"Yes, you have given 100% to this company. But, over the five years you've worked here that's only 20% a year."
"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."
Martin Scorsese Roasts Your Fandom
Sergei Taneyev
Who's torturing a crow? I'm practicing my play. It's art! Which opens your mind to life's important questions. Right. Like what is art? Or do we need little brothers?
A man watches TV while wearing a Marshall McLuhan sweatshirt.
"I wanted to deliver a message of hope and tolerance in a complex global society but I decided to update them on the Kardashians instead."
Jackson Pollock makes a mistake: 'Guess I'll have to start over.'
Oak Tree Painted in 1642
Igor Stravinsky
"The truth? You can't HANDLE the truth!"
'I loved your argument. When are you planning to perform it again?'
'I have this constant ringing in my ears. I think I have tinnitus.' - 'Does it sound like an 'eeeeeee' or a 'shhhhh'?' - 'It's like the murmer of a thousand forgotten souls quietly lamenting past sorrows.' - 'Hmmm. I don't have a checkbox for that, sadly.
Leos Janacek
Clever youth stating that he considers Shakespeare overrated
Dancing with Jesus
"This song is dedicated to all of you who have been having a hard time deciding between the big bang and steady state theories."
'I like it.'
"It's too academic."
"I've been an emerging artist for ten years now..."
Cross section through the Art Virus.
The Thinker Thinks of Toilet Roll.
Mime artist reading: 'Thinking Outside the Invisible Box.'
"Don't ask me. I don't know what 'my country 'tis of thee' means, either."
'If you think it was the best of times call this number now'
Ezra Pound
"A million monkeys typing for a million years might come up with Hamlet, but they could never direct it."
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