By Robert William Petrick, a perfectly requited sentiment.

In discussing the paintings, [Jackson Pollock] would ask, ‘Does it work?’ Or in looking at mine, he would comment, ‘It works’ or ‘It doesn’t work.’ He may have been the first artist to have used the word ‘work’ in that sense.

— Lee Krasner, quoted in B.H. Friedman, Jackson Pollock: Energy Made Visible, 1972

Titles of paintings by Salvador Dalí:

• Debris of an Automobile Giving Birth to a Blind Horse Biting a Telephone
• Bed and Two Bedside Tables Ferociously Attacking a Cello
• Premature Ossification of a Railroad Station
• Rock and Infuriated Horse Sleeping Under the Sea
• Fifty Abstract Paintings Which as Seen From Two Yards Change Into Three Lenins Masquerading as Chinese and as Seen From Six Yards Appear as the Head of a Royal Bengal Tiger
• Necrophiliac Fountain Flowing From a Grand Piano
• Dalí at the Age of Six When He Thought He Was a Girl Lifting the Skin of the Water to See the Dog Sleeping in the Shade of the Sea
• Skull With Its Lyric Appendage Leaning on a Bedside Table Which Should Have the Exact Temperature of a Cardinal’s Nest
• Bread on the Head of the Prodigal Son
• Barber Saddened by the Persistence of Good Weather (The Anguished Barber)
• The Man With the Head of Blue Hortensias
• A Soft Watch Put in the Appropriate Place to Cause a Young Ephebe to Die and Be Resuscitated by Excess of Satisfaction
• Two Pieces of Bread Expressing the Sentiment of Love
• Mysterious Mouth Appearing in the Back of My Nurse
• Dream Caused by the Flight of a Bee Around a Pomegranate a Second Before Awakening
• Invisible Afghan With the Apparition on the Beach of the Face of Garcia Lorca in the Form of a Fruit Dish With Three Figs
• Giant Flying Mocca Cup With an Inexplicable Five Metre Appendage
• Dalí’s Hand Drawing Back the Golden Fleece in the Form of a Cloud to Show Gala, Completely Nude, the Dawn, Very, Very Far Away Behind the Sun
• Atmospheric Skull Sodomizing a Grand Piano
• My Wife, Nude, Contemplating Her Own Flesh Becoming Stairs, Three Vertebrae of a Column, Sky and Architecture

He wrote, “It is not necessary for the public to know whether I am joking or whether I am serious, just as it is not necessary for me to know it myself.”

Two rhapsodies on the name of French philosopher Michel Onfray, by Basile Morin.

In the chain ambigram above, the first name is transfigured (at some point) into the last.

In the tessellation ambigram below, the two names appear simultaneously as figure and ground.

Ambigram shot glasses by Basile Morin. The design is here.

In 1782, during a tour of Hampton Court, Hannah More encountered landscape architect Lancelot “Capability” Brown, who compared his art to literary composition:

‘Now there‘ said he, pointing his finger, ‘I make a comma, and there’ pointing to another spot, ‘where a more decided turn is proper, I make a colon; at another part, where an interruption is desirable to break the view, a parenthesis; now a full stop, and then I begin another subject.’

From a letter to her sister, December 31, 1782.