Budding Minimalist Gifts

Stuff you need once then leave at the back of the cupboard to fester

Young Frank Lloyd Wright

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."

"I'll bet all of Albert Einstein's teachers felt like idiots for giving him bad grades too."

Kid with messed up project in Wood Shop, titled: 'Wouldn't Shop'

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.'

Timmy has a great future in nano-technology.

Great works I plan to complete during the lockdown.

Building a Shelter

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

'We're pushing our do-it-yourself kit, today, sir - a ream of paper and a half-dozen pencils.'

'Who I played in Summer Stock.'

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

'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.

Building Blocks.

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.

'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."

"My buildings are meant to inspire."

Jackson Pollock as a child

Michelangelo painting with watercolors as a child.

'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.'

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."

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