The hidden monkey can be seen in the top-right corner of bathroom mirror (happened in Kenya few years ago).
There is no good drawing who hasn't a touch of insanity. Too silly to be true art may suggest a mystification somewhere, or a Kenyan monkey in ghostlily bathroom.
The greatest pride, or the greatest despondency, is the greatest ignorance of one's self.
Spinoza
Boundless pride is not paradigmatic enough. If a despondency lasts for a long time, it's a melancholic affection.
Several paintings present mirrored figures, facing one another with a left–right inversion. These are double figures, confronting and at times merging with each other, like parallel universes that intersect or fall apart.
What worries you masters you ("sloth" even as a living metaphor).
The synapse is like the soul of the brain.
Our lives are a more or less a mirror on our thoughts
Oscar Wilde
By the way, Michelangelo work mirrored the sculptures of antiquity. Would you call that pastiche? And if not, then why?
Two silly pictures seems to leave a deeper impression on the brain than does concentrating on just one silly picture at a time.
Mirror neurons make us imitate without thinking with those little grey cells. It is the viewer, and not life, that artworks really mirrors.
We still need a distinctive tool for localizing art as the product of a complex neuronal network.
Jasper Johns, because doodling is a neuronal representation
How to make reflective mirror artwork ? The human body is first and foremost a mirror to the soul and its greatest beauty comes from that given that it is easier to polish mirrored metal artworks.