Budding Artist Mentor Gifts

"Mother, I think I'm good enough to exhibit on the living room walls now."

"Do you want to play doctorate?"

Library sections; Fiction, non-fiction and do-it-yourself.

My First Camera

'I love your playing....especially when you stop!'

"Abstract Expressionism is definitely right for me at this stage of my career."

Child drawing fish from life by putting his head in a pond.

Four children playing the flute.

"I know its hard to believe right now, Lawrence, but some day you'll thank me for asking you to punctuate your sentences correctly."

"You're welcome."

Great works I plan to complete during the lockdown.

'With my parents out of the house, I can finally start my long awaited mural project.'

"I sincerely hope you learned a lesson this time, Mark. Drawing cartoons on your homework will get you nowhere in life."

"... And his piano teacher says that he definitely has Van Gough's ear for music."

'We're pushing our do-it-yourself kit, today, sir - a ream of paper and a half-dozen pencils.'

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

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

'Do I have to be creative?'

Creative Baby.

'My first camera'

How to draw a martian!

Mum has a bad judgement day - Well OK, you can take it to your room as long as you play it quietly.

'All good things must come to an end.'

"Viola player coming through!"

'Look. Billy Curry did a nude!'

'For God's sake give me some angst, how will I ever write a misery memoir?'

"There's the pressure from my public, naturally, as well as the pressure from my publisher, my agent, and all that. But the real pressure comes from that devil inside that makes me different from other men, that makes me a writer. But, of course, you know all about pressure, grinding out those papers at Sarah Lawrence."

Jackson Pollock as a child

'Talk about stuck-up! -- he has Masterpiece Theatre action figures!'

"I've finally finished my lockdown novel."

Michelangelo painting with watercolors as a child.

"It's supposed to be a comedy, so I've had Steve, here, red-flag the funny parts."

"That' a wonderful picture, sweetheart. You know, maybe we should keep all of this garbage, in case you become a famous artist."

'I'm not sure if he plays that loud because he has a good set of lungs or if it's a mean streak in him.'

Teacher to student: 'Nice use of glitter, but you were assigned to do math problems.'