Brush-wielding Visionary Gifts

Monkey-artist

'No, Mr. Simmons, your MR images aren't in yet. We have older equipment, which takes a little longer to process.'

'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've been told I have Rembrandt's golden glow.'

'I love these afternoon jam sessions.'

This Cave Updated Daily.

"This gives me the inner fulfillment I could never achieve through dodgeball."

'Gotta hang up now. My mom wants to recycle the phone.'

Painter's muse

Most of his innovative product ideas first saw life in his home studio.

Air Pollution Agency - 'Tell them I have the solution to most of their problems.'

'That brush - how many dpi?'

Rationalization

Artist

"Well it's a lovely piece passed down to you by your father. How did he acquire it?"

"Nice igloo, but why isn't it melting?!"

The Bored Impressionist

'Three thousand of those, four thousand of those, five thousand of those...'

'I'm an artistic genius, I bet no-one has ever painted a plain old bowl of fruit.'

'Been in advertising long?' man asks painter, who's painting a pile of rubbish as a beautiful countryside scene.

Artist having painted a featureless landscape.

"Ambitions... to find fame or fortune or better still, with a little luck, both of them."

'Did you know the gardener also does hair?'

A recurring problem in Van Gogh's later years.

"No honestly, your work is good, it's just not instagram good."

Sandcastles in the rain

The Rebel Donny Yuma

Paint pot - "It does exactly what it says on the tin."

Jester with scratch cards. "I need to win some money to fund my arts project."

'I wish I had a larger piece of the pie in the sky...'

Swiss Army General

Perfect sincerity; or, tinkings aloud No. II - Artists being critical of each other's work

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

The self-portrait.

"Paint something nice."