Visual Philosophers Pillows

Man puzzled by a question mark in a painting.

"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..."

"I see the White House didn't lower the flag to half staff."

"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."

Out of control

The revolution that hit Hollywood hardest:The Thinking Pictures."

"...and, if your idea is so imaginative, innovative and original, why aren't our competitors doing it?"

"We have a goal wrapped in a plan, and served on a bed of success."

American Venn diagram

"Your painting is both original and good. Sadly, the good bits are not original and the original bits are not good."

A man watches TV while wearing a Marshall McLuhan sweatshirt.

'The hardest thing is convincing the wife that when I'm staring out of the window I'm actually composing a tweet.'

'Stop quoting from films and get on with it.'

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

Oak Tree Painted in 1642

Advanced Zen for Couch Potatoes: Earl becomes One with his Lazy-Boy.

"Thanks to my new glasses, I can enjoy a good old "bird's eye view" again..."

'I like it.'

'Sales are still bad, but notice how cool everything looks with the 3-D glasses.'

"It's too academic."

"I've been an emerging artist for ten years now..."

'In defense of rotten movies, they DO have the remarkable ability to make it seem like maybe your life isn't flying by that fast after all!'

Cross section through the Art Virus.

The Thinker Thinks of Toilet Roll.

Painting.

" 'Perceptual and kinetic art have an intertwined development that cannot be totally disentangled; nevertheless perceptual, optical, or "virtual" movement—which always exists in tension with factual immobility—is an experience of a different order.' "

"What do the know!"

'I think he's a minimalist.'

"If art was meant to be understood by the common man then the common man would have a degree in art appreciation."

Ezra Pound

Donald Trump Crossword Silhouette