Philosophy Of Music Mugs

While dreaming, Beethoven sees the future and loses hope,

'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..."

"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."

Sergei Taneyev

Jackson Pollock makes a mistake: 'Guess I'll have to start over.'

'I loved your argument. When are you planning to perform it again?'

Oak Tree Painted in 1642

Musical Pondering.

Page from 'How to Draw' by Albrecht Durer

Igor Stravinsky

Another musical treatise from the 16th century is discovered.

Major and minor keys

Jean Philippe Rameau

"When I was making money, I made the most money, and now that I'm spiritual I'm the most spiritual."

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

"This song is dedicated to all of you who have been having a hard time deciding between the big bang and steady state theories."

Leos Janacek

"How do you know he was offsides? How do you know anything? Isn’t it possible this is all a dream?!"

'Oh I've seen this before - an encounter with the Goldberg Variations I fear!'

'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.

"I'll throw around the 'old pigskin' as long as the pig isn't still in it."

Mime artist reading: 'Thinking Outside the Invisible Box.'

Ezra Pound