Aspiring Picasso Mugs

Art Is A Snap When You Know How To Spell

'I'm in my Blue period.'

"You've got a long, long road ahead of you, young man."

'Do I have to be creative?'

"Billy is turning out to be quite the little artist."

'It's my homage to Picasso.' (Snowman is all mixed up with eyes and nose in odd places)

"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'."

Child's Drawing (With Elephantiasis)

It's a call from Tate modern.

Well, you know these child prodigies - they can be very demanding about how their work is displayed.

"Someday you'll see my work in the employee break room at the Met."

Kid doing cave paintings

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

"Don't worry, Miss. I'll soon get the hang of it."

'You could do that.' I did

"I made the mistake of telling him that the world is his canvas."

"My wife has always encouraged me... ...to quit this stupid dream and get a real job." ... "You have a wife?"

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

'Miss Donahue would give him an F.'

'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.'

"It's the poor artist who blames his crayons."

'Mom says finger painting was digital art before computers.'

'I think it's the best thing you've ever done!'

'Is this any way to treat a budding genius?'

Children's Imagination

A backup plan might be a good idea, in case 'being a celebrity' doesn't work out...

'I'm having a private showing over on my grandma's refrigerator next week.'

The neighbors were not sure what to think of the young Picasso's snowman

Brian, I hope you're taking this seriously.

"Do I need to know this stuff to get into medical school?"

Michelangelo painting with watercolors as a child.

"Timmy, your dog looks just like he does in your drawings."

'A bad Picasso is still better than a good wall!'

Francoise Gilot

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