Budding Buddha Gifts

"Shhh - he's trying open his third nostril."

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

"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.

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

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

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

" 'How I Spent My Summer Vacation,' a treatment by Todd Mozelle, Grade Three."

'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."

'Who I played in Summer Stock.'

'This is your spinal column...It's a bunch of bones that runs up and down your back and keeps your legs from going all the way up to your neck.'

'Do I have to be creative?'

Timpani.

"This is an excellent story, Doris, so far."

'All good things must come to an end.'

Creative Baby.

'Look. Billy Curry did a nude!'

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

Jackson Pollock as a child

'What's the fist thing you're going to think of when your brain is fully formed?'

"Your book stinks—we want to publish it."

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

Michelangelo painting with watercolors as a child.

Lessons from the Blakely Art School (Now Defunct)

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

Small child checks out a book.

'I can't find the words to express my anger with you.' - 'She needs a dictionary.'

'Birthdays are like life...the more you have, the more illuminated you become.'

Fridge with child's drawings in an art exhibition.

"I wanted to see if it made a picture."

'Don't be hard on the boy, dear, I'm sure that Van Gogh's first sunflowers weren't so hot.'

Children's Publishing - Child's portrait of 'Our Founder'.

"I wanted to make it look like the ones at church."

'We couldn't afford school pictures this year so Timmy is doing the family portraits.'