Budding Da Vinci Gifts

"I'm gonna be an artist!"

"Do you want to play doctorate?"

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

Baby Piano

'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!'

Four children playing the flute.

It's a call from Tate modern.

'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."

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

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

"I just cleaned that glass! How can it already be covered in nose prints?!"

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

'Do I have to be creative?'

Creative Baby.

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

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

'All good things must come to an end.'

'Look. Billy Curry did a nude!'

"Which way to the Mona Lisa? We're double-parked."

'Gerald was stripping some old wallpaper, and there it was - Leonard Da Vinci's lost fresco ‘The Battle of Anghiari'.'

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

Jackson Pollock as a child

Leonardo Da Vinci's Cat

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

Lessons from the Blakely Art School (Now Defunct)

'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.'

Michelangelo painting with watercolors as a child.

"You want to say WHAT?"

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

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

"Yeah, don't worry about the smile; I'll just wing it."