Budding Bard Gifts

'...when all at once I saw a bunch, a bunch of golden daffodils...no, it still doesn't sound right.'

'How's everyone doing tonight - that is the question.'

"You'd like a book by Shakespeare? Certainly sir - which one. . .?"

"Do you want to play doctorate?"

Young Frank Lloyd Wright

I should be a writer when I grow up...

'On your mark. Get set. Create!'

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

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

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

Kid with messed up project in Wood Shop, titled: 'Wouldn't Shop'

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

'Can you tell me what I've written? I can't read!'

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

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

'Who I played in Summer Stock.'

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

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

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

'Do I have to be creative?'

"He just found that 'pillage' rhymes with 'village'."

Creative Baby.

"And this little piggy went – whoa! Where is your fifth little piggy?!"

'All good things must come to an end.'

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

'Look. Billy Curry did a nude!'

'There! Now you won't get tangles!'

"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."

"Isn't it obvious? I'm writing the great American graphic novel."

"My buildings are meant to inspire."

"Be or be not. There is no question."

Jackson Pollock as a child

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

Michelangelo painting with watercolors as a child.

Lessons from the Blakely Art School (Now Defunct)