Finance Meets Art Gifts

"We'd like to take a majority position in your poetry."

Lemniskate

'Based on your travels, what would you say is the greatest potential downside, if any, to investing in the Upper Amazon?'

"Life is too short! Why should I waste my time frantically searching for a mate when I can create art instead..."

'If we were in the Renaissance, we'd be painting nativity scenes right now.'

"In this piece, the price clearly does not reflect what the artist is trying to say."

'So much for the will! Now, before you start celebrating, I suggest you think about inheritance taxes, because, according to my calculations, you will be left with. . ."

The Edward Witten String-Theory Quarter

Now hiring: crowdfunding expert to reduce the US budget deficit.

"So you're an investor who dabbles in art? I happen to be an artist who dabbles in money."

'I highly recommend this painting if you're into art as an investment.'

Accountant sings the blues

Dangerous Mural

"Regarding my art collection, I know what I like."

Art Guidelines

"Restrictions on derivatives, exotic band deals and swaps? How am I going to stimulate my creativity?"

"Our clients like their accountants to use their 'imagination', but most would still prefer their returns in a spreadsheet."

'He got a grant on the condition that he stop painting for a year.'

Boy sells his own work outside posh modern art gallery.

'But the most creative bit of the agency is, of course, the Accounts Department!' Advertising executive addressing a group of art students.

" 'Twas brillig, and the slithy toves Did gyre and gimble in the wabe; All mimsy were the borogroves, and the mome raths outgrabe fifty basis points."

'And for the artsy crowd, Benson, from accounting, will repeat my words through interpretive dance.'

'You'd better stop there, my council funding's just been cut.'

Jester with scratch cards. "I need to win some money to fund my arts project."

"Dang! I forgot my Ass. T.M card."

"I like it."

"All I'm saying is, giving a little something to the arts might help our image."

"Bradley dabbles in art, but it doesn't define him. Money defines him."

Creative Accounting.

"I didn't start this, prices shoot up first."