Budding Pianist Mugs

'You didn't practice last night,did you?'

First Piano Lesson

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

Library sections; Fiction, non-fiction and do-it-yourself.

Baby Piano

"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.

Double Bass

'Can you tell me what I've written? I can't read!'

Four children playing the flute.

'With my parents out of the house, I can finally start my long awaited mural project.'

Great works I plan to complete during the lockdown.

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

'Who I played in Summer Stock.'

"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."

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

Timpani.

'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.

'All good things must come to an end.'

'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

"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.

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.'

"I've finally finished my lockdown novel."

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

'Don't be hard on the boy, dear, I'm sure that Van Gogh's first sunflowers weren't so hot.'