Aspiring Guitarist Mugs

"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 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?"

Busking, "Stop worrying your father for money."

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

'Miss Donahue would give him an F.'

'Hey guys?. . . Help us think what Dale could do for his '15 minutes of fame.''

Children's Imagination

'Man it's a tough crowd tonight!'

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

'I'm sure I could lie on my back waving my feet in the air if I could play the saxophone.'

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."

"That'll be the day!"

'I told you I'd make you a star.'

A child busking

"I couldn't get a signal while I was at the mall. I can now relate to those songs that sing about the blues."

"She gets her musical ability from me."

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

'I'm with the band.'

'Today's unwilling nude model is Ralph.'

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

'While my guitar gently creeks.'

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

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

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

"I promised myself I would never let this happen to me."