Budding Diva Gifts

"I'd like to sing my own composition, 'Tom Daley's Trunk'."

"Do you want to play doctorate?"

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.'

'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.'

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

'Do I have to be creative?'

'All good things must come to an end.'

Creative Baby.

The wrecking crew!

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

'According to this, she began making wine in her laundry room 30 years ago, and now she's moved on to the garage.'

'Look. Billy Curry did a nude!'

'He takes bathtime seriously.'

"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."

Jackson Pollock 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."

Michelangelo painting with watercolors as a child.

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

"I've finally finished my lockdown novel."

"I dreamt I went to school without my phone!"

Small child checks out a book.

'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.'

Boy baking a cake.

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