Visionary Virtuoso Gifts

"Is this speech pie-in-the-sky nonsense or aspirational?"

"I don't like getting bogged down in details. I'm more of a big-picture guy."

CLOTHES-HORSES OF THE ART SCENE

"I may not know much about art, but I do know what's suitable for framing."

The Optician At Home: "....And it didn't fit the other sister, either. Then Cinderella tried on the glasses, and she could see perfectly."

Artist and Musician

Large print e-book.

"Father would never understand me investing in things called Google and Yahoo."

Game changing

"I'm afraid you have a condition called 'googly-eyes'."

'Apparently it's part of the evolutionary process!'

'Have you tried removing the blindfold?'

'He's the bluesman's bluesman.'

'The other kids at school say I might need glasses, Dad.'

"It's a long term goal."

Wishing Well

'Aha! I think I figured out the headache problem, one of these things is pointed the other way. This would explain the double vision.'

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

'You say you're having trouble seeing into the future'

'They suit you.'

Future site of Que Sera Sera.

The first 'outside the box' thinker.

"We're still trying to sort out the details."

"My company's board members all told me the vision statement I wrote is really blurry."

Artistic Licence.

"Your problem isn't the prescription."

'Hold it right there, pal! I had a vision that your check is going to bounce, so you can just head right back to your car!'

'All of my paints dried up in their tubes, so I decided to quit painting and become a sculptor.'

'Organisations that are not driven by the future quickly find themselves the dust of history,'

"Someday, son, all this will be in the cartoonist’s flat file."

'Crikey, you've got to have good eye-sight to look through those glasses, haven't you?'

I think I need new glasses. I swear I just saw a tiny man jump off your bridge.

"This one will go with everything,

'You've had the eye exam. Now buy the t-shirt!'

Two words, boss: Virtual reality. We glue virtual reality goggles to our coffee mugs. Come again? When patrons sip their Himalayan mochas, they'll think they're dangling from a cliff in the Himalayan mountains. People will come from Miles around! People will throw up for miles around. We'll give patrons mops that double as virtual reality hockey sticks. This conversation is virtually over.