Budding Buddhist Gifts

"This week on 'The Amazing Race to Enlightenment,' can Jim and Suzy achieve right mindfulness? And will Barb and Candy be eliminated for relentless clinging to the self?"

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

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."

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.'

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

'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.'

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

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

'Who I played in Summer Stock.'

'Do I have to be creative?'

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

'All good things must come to an end.'

The wrecking crew!

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.

Creative Baby.

'Look. Billy Curry did a nude!'

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

"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

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

Michelangelo painting with watercolors as a child.

"I've finally finished my lockdown novel."

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

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

'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.'

"You want to say WHAT?"

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

Lessons from the Blakely Art School (Now Defunct)

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