Aspiring Art Visionary Gifts

"This is your studio? It's just an apartment."

CLOTHES-HORSES OF THE ART SCENE

"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 may not know much about art, but I do know what's suitable for framing."

'I imagine you'll be asking for a full refund.'

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

'I have a feeling one day when he grows up he'll be an artist of some kind.'

'This is a good time to be young, son. Look at all the opportunities you have in front of you...you can help sole the problems of the environment, poverty,civil rights....'

'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.'

"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.'

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

"I like it, honey ... it speaks to what a waste of time your MFA was."

The world's most unemployable family

Children's Imagination

'And the Dance Scholarship goes to...'

Children's imagination

Like many kids, Bobby had an imaginary friend. Unfortunately for Bobby, he was a critic.

"Sorry, you're not cut out to be a mime artist."

"Great money scenes!"

Brian, I hope you're taking this seriously.

"Have you give any thought to my suggestion about a sculpture that's just a chubby kid constantly peeing."

'Don't be hard on the boy, dear, I'm sure that Van Gogh's first sunflowers weren't so hot.'

'All of my paints dried up in their tubes, so I decided to quit painting and become a sculptor.'

Artistic Licence.

"Someday, son, all this will be in the cartoonist’s flat file."

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

"This one will go with everything,

"Is this Haiku poopery?"

"That'll be the day!"

An artist creates a sculpture of a "thumbs up" and is then crushed by it.

As an artist, Ug was thousands of years ahead of his time.

Truthfully, I'm just a frustrated insurance agent …

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