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.

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

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

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.'

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

'Who I played in Summer Stock.'

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

'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."

'Do I have to be creative?'

Creative Baby.

The wrecking crew!

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

'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.

'He takes bathtime seriously.'

'Look. Billy Curry did a nude!'

"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

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

Lessons from the Blakely Art School (Now Defunct)

Michelangelo painting with watercolors as a child.

"I've finally finished my lockdown novel."

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

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

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

Boy baking a cake.

'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.'

Small child checks out a book.