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."

Infographics: the early years.

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

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

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

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

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.

American Venn diagram

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

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

The Last Jedi dvd is going to have fourteen deleted scenes! Horrible mistake. The confident creator releases his work to the world and says This is it. This is what I want to show you. He doesn't then show you all the stuff he might have put in the story. Did Prince release the deleted stanza from Little Red Corvette where he also compared her to a Ford Pinto? Wait ... Prince compared a sexy lady to a Ford Pinto? Who knows? That's my point. Aren't you glad you don't know what?

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..."

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

'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!'

'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.

Painting.

Donald Trump Crossword Silhouette

Why do you hate blockbuster movies? Why do you hate documentaries? I don't. I love spending two hours watching the very life I'm trying to escape. Oooh, fun, bittersweet insights into the complexities of living in modern life. Document this! My camera lens isn't wide enough.

"What do the know!"

'I think he's a minimalist.'

Ezra Pound

" '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.' "