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.

"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.'

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

'Who I played in Summer Stock.'

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

"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.'

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

'Do I have to be creative?'

Timpani.

Creative Baby.

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

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

'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

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.'

Michelangelo painting with watercolors as a child.

"I've finally finished my lockdown novel."

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

"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.'

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