Budding Singer Gifts

'I didn't pass the audition for the School Choir: They said I had a squeaky voice...'

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.

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.'

" 'How I Spent My Summer Vacation,' a treatment by Todd Mozelle, Grade Three."

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

'Who I played in Summer Stock.'

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

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

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

'Do I have to be creative?'

Timpani.

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

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

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

"I've finally finished my lockdown novel."

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

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."

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

Fridge with child's drawings in an art exhibition.