Artistic Applicant Gifts

'I have never seen a resume prepared in pastels and oil paint. How long have you been unemployed?'

Felix Mendelssohn

"I would like a tube of lemon yellow, cadmium red, cobalt blue, ivory, black, and zinc white, a sixteen-by-twenty canvas, a couple of brushes, and that book 'Painting in Oils'."

"I'm gonna be a 'New Yorker' cartoonist. You're not supposed to understand it."

"So what makes you think you're the man for the job?"

"Brilliant cover letter, lousy résumé."

'Miss Donahue would give him an F.'

'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.'

"Oh, don't mind that, it's just my body of unseen work."

"My wife has always encouraged me... ...to quit this stupid dream and get a real job." ... "You have a wife?"

'I wish I was creative'

Children's Imagination

Brian, I hope you're taking this seriously.

What do you think of the application so far?

"I didn't bring a resume. I brought coffee and donuts."

"If I had it all to do over again, I would have liked to be the King of Swing."

"She gets her musical ability from me."

Bureaucratic Position Interview

"I've made a fortune as a successful artist! I couldn't see this happening if I became a soldier or a worker..."

Hanging Mime - Such a waste of talent.

"That'll be the day!"

',,,and you can name your salary as long as it falls within our range of underpaid employees,'

Move Up In The World or Down Hill All The Way.

'Oh Rats! I can't be creative with a box of flat crayons!'

'Today's unwilling nude model is Ralph.'

"I've been an emerging artist for ten years now..."

"I owe my success to him. I figured, if he can make it, so can I."

"The beanbag chair, … do we take it out of the furniture budget or the art budget?"

'I need to practice painting the human figure, MOM! Models cost money!"

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

Close... but no Degas.

Ballerina Vs. Martial Artist