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."

'I don't care if Jackson Pollock did start out this way. We are drawing kittens.'

School of Art & Design. Looks like they're putting up an addition.

'I wish I was creative'

"Brilliant cover letter, lousy résumé."

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

'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.'

'Miss Donahue would give him an F.'

"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?"

Children's Imagination

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

What do you think of the application so far?

Brian, I hope you're taking this seriously.

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

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

Hanging Mime - Such a waste of talent.

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

Bureaucratic Position Interview

"She gets her musical ability from me."

Truthfully, I'm just a frustrated insurance agent …

"That'll be the day!"

NOW HIRING, 'I don't have any formal training for the position, but I've read all the relevant Wikipedia articles.'

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

'Today's unwilling nude model is Ralph.'

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

"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?"

Painter and Decorator/Wallpaper