Aspiration Artist Mugs

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

Chasing Dreams

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

'I guess there are lots of rotten jobs, Gramma...I hope I don't have to clean the taco hut forever.'

Beware the Dog: 'Hopefully I'll grow into the job...'

"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'."

Cat with Lion reflection in mirror

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

"Follow that dream!" (man boarding taxi)

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

'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?"

'Miss Donahue would give him an F.'

"Maybe I'm aiming too high...maybe 'saving for a cool car' is too hard."

Children's Imagination

The Day Dreamer.

"You really shouldn't ask for material things like a bike. At least try for a Porsche."

Rainbow/Horizon

Brian, I hope you're taking this seriously.

'Oh no...I'm living the dream.'

Baseball Dreams

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

Man Walking Towards His Goal.

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

". . . and they lived happily ever after. . . in an aspirational sort of way."

"That'll be the day!"

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

'Today's unwilling nude model is Ralph.'

"...and would you like to enroll her in pre-pre-pre-med or pre-pre-law?"

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

"But am I happy? Very."

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

"Who do you want to replace when you grow up?"

'It's a great country kid, anyone can grow up to be security to the president.'