Portrait Pondering Gifts

"I dreamed Lucian Freud was coming to paint us."

' Isn't it great the way the eyes follow you around the room?'

'The way the eyes follow you is uncanny.'

Crowded Ice Fishing

"You're my Mona Lisa."

Framed Lady

"Look, if I had all the answers, would I be living alone on the top of a mountain?"

"Sitting here with you each day at sunset reminds me I have to get a job."

"Nice haircut."

Diego Velasquez

'If someone farts in the forest and there's no one around to smell it, does it make a stink?'

"Just when I thought I had all the answers, I forgot what the questions were."

'Sometimes, in the stillness and warmth of an afternoon sun, I can almost hear interest compounding.'

'Could you tone down the smile just a little?'

'Naughty? Nice? Santa, I don't deal in absolutes.'

Couple painting each other - one turns to the other and says, 'Hon, let's hire a model.'

Lost and Profound.

'Yes sir, Thoreau had the right idea.'

Me when by BDD shows up

"Have you tried turning off your conscious mind and then turning it back on again?"

"And that's me as a shepherdess!"

"Gotta cut back on my binge thinking."

Phoebe Mary Waller-Bridge caricature

"now let's try one without the tusks."

Rodins rotten juggler

"You what? Well, you darn well ought to have a guilt complex"

"Just think of all the cigarettes I could have smoked."

Michelangelo Buonarroti.

Fish sleeps while counting worms that jump over a fence.

'I warned him that this was no place for a guy with inner-ear problems.'

'How come there aren't any peace heroes?'

'Curses! My eyes were closed.'

'Well, in my case, Muzak DOESN'T help with meditation!'

"The notion that *CRUNCH* architectural *CRUNCH CRUNCH* forms can *CRUNCH* express anything may *CRUNCH* seem difficult *CRUNCH* to *CRUNCH CRUNCH* grasp at *CRUNCH* all,"

"But is it..?"