Aspiring Artists Prints

'Fine, I'll go to my room, but one day when I'm a famous artist you'll be telling this story as an amusing anecdote!'

"He quit his job to pursue his dreams."

"I'm serious-you could really pursue this as an embarrassing hobby."

"I did the best dental health poster in the class. I just hope Mr. Tooth Decay doesn't hold a grudge."

"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'."

What else is there to wish for?

"What's your project for the science fair, Arnold?"

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

"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.'

'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?"

Busking, "Stop worrying your father for money."

'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.'

"Obviously, I can't fly like you, but if you teach me, I can probably sing like you..."

Children's Imagination

Directors chairs on movie set with Model, Actress, and Whatever on them

Brian, I hope you're taking this seriously.

'I couldn't practice last night on account of my Dad's head was gonna' explode.'

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

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

"That'll be the day!"

"The extent of your extracurricular activities in high school, may very well be participation in regular program of oral hygiene using an effective decay preventaative tooth paste, but that won't get you into a good university."

Truthfully, I'm just a frustrated insurance agent …

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

"This area is popular with would-be actresses and models,we call it 'Silicon Implants'."

"She gets her musical ability from me."

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 was only famous for 14 and a half minutes.'

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

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

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