Shelf Curator Gifts

"There are those who write books to be read and other who write novels for bookshelves."

Paul Klee

CLOTHES-HORSES OF THE ART SCENE

Shoe addict.

Mr. Empirical With "Antarctica""Small is hostile. Rage contributes to shift away from literality. I'm off to True Value Hardware for some more self-reference tools."

It's a call from Tate modern.

"I only like their bad albums – the good ones are too commercial."

'Projectile painting.'

Schools of Art - A Rough Guide.

Couple Sitting in Front of A Sunset.

You had me at vintage.

"I was going to call it 'Empty Plinth', but then I settled on 'Winter's Smile'...I wanted to capture the 'nothingness' of an 'absence of anything'..."

'Number two. That's the art that offended me.'

'It's not easy painting hummingbirds.'

Board Game Hunter

"I feel there's a whole culture around mules."

"You won't believe this but I haven't a thing to wear"

"That shirt is so last year."

"The new house is almost ready!"

Books / Coffee table books

'Eee,love - this place gives me a great idea for the spare bedroom!'

"Who should we have at eye level this month?"

"That must be the artist over there."

"He begged his wife and kids to join him in Tahiti, but he didn't mean a word of it, the bastard."

The perfectionist.

"Definitive." "Compelling." "Persuasive." "Upside down."

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

'Mint?! These taste like cardboard!'

"I could do that."

"Queen begins with Q, it should be precisely here."

Kapoor & Piss-poor (Anish Kapoor sculpture beside Marcel Deschamps urinal)

"He's left out the staples"

Sculptor's chippings

Happy Hog - Manet

Francoise Gilot