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'You will write a book, but it won't be on Oprah's recommended list.'

1,001 names to Embarrass Your Child for Life.

"Do you want to play doctorate?"

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.

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

"I know its hard to believe right now, Lawrence, but some day you'll thank me for asking you to punctuate your sentences correctly."

Timmy has a great future in nano-technology.

'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.'

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

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

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

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

'Do I have to be creative?'

Creative Baby.

'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.

How to draw a martian!

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

'Look. Billy Curry did a nude!'

'For God's sake give me some angst, how will I ever write a misery memoir?'

"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."

Jackson Pollock as a child

"I've finally finished my lockdown novel."

Michelangelo painting with watercolors 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."

'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.'

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

Lessons from the Blakely Art School (Now Defunct)