Artist At Heart Gifts

Henry Miller.

"Will you do me the honour of becoming my excuse for the frustrations and failures of all my creative endeavours?"

"Don't worry about your purchase not working. Everything we sell here is totally non-functional."

'Just think of it as graphic design, Mom.'

Empty box of ideas

"I'm the only sane artist in the world."

Piano and Pianist with broken legs.

"Can you speak up: there's a bloody racket going on in the background."

"It's about sex and revenge, except for a short chapter on the Continental Congress."

Reginald Bunthorne

Trilby - 'The old studio'.

"Just when you're about to lose faith in humanity, you see Shakespeare in the Park."

Your tiny hand is frozen...

Framed Lady

"If I Can Make One Critic Smile..."

Great moments in art dogs playing poker, cats playing Pictionary,

A woman drawing birds makes them fly around the room.

Trilby - 'A voice he didn't understand'.

No time for sirtaki now, Greece!

He doesn't howl at the moon. He prefers to howl into the void.

"How the hell is that supposed to feed us?"

Swing dancers.

Comedy Ballet of Marionettes I (Oil Version in Tate Known as 'A Caprice'

"On second thought, mabe it would look better over there."

'And when you're done here honey, I have a nice periwinkle picked out for the foyer!'

"Hmmm, this might just be not funny enough for The New Yorker."

Urns in love

'I really wanted to only take accounting courses, but my parents made me take this cartooning class so I would have something to fall back on.'

Phoenix

Nesting dolls stranded on an island send out nesting bottles with messages in each of them.

Alberich steals the gold

'Dear, couldn't you spend part of your time actually hunting something?'

Moon

"Not now. I'm working on my children's book."

"I like it, Julian — it speaks to what a waste of time and money your MFA was."