Choosing An Artistic Career Gifts

"I don't know...maybe I can make a living as an artist. I can draw all kinds of stuff!"

'When I grow up, I want to be a hydraulic engineer...'

Guitarist

"I did the best dental health poster in the class. I just hope Mr. Tooth Decay doesn't hold a grudge."

"I would like a tube of lemon yellow, cadmium red, cobalt blue, ivory, black, and zinc white, a sixteen-by-twenty canvas, a couple of brushes, and that book 'Painting in Oils'."

'Gosh, really? You've never been on any reality show at all?'

"I'm gonna be a 'New Yorker' cartoonist. You're not supposed to understand it."

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

"My wife has always encouraged me... ...to quit this stupid dream and get a real job." ... "You have a wife?"

"Oh, don't mind that, it's just my body of unseen work."

"He wants to be a plastic surgeon when he grows up."

'Miss Donahue would give him an F.'

'Well Mimi, what's it going to be...medicine or the cello?'

"I wrote this one after my third startup failed. It’s called ‘I Got Yer App Right Here.’"

'I chose my field on what would put the most impressive initials after my name.'

'I really wanted to only take accounting courses, but my parents made me take this cartooning class so I would have something to fall back on.'

'He's majoring in cave hydrology with, obviously, the ultimate aim of being a caveman like his Dad.'

Children's Imagination

"Football is too dangerous, Junior. Why not follow my footsteps in a safe sport - chasing investment yield?"

'I agree, this artist will go far and he should start right now!'

"This is off our first TikTok."

'But Father, I don't want to study space time temporal theories in relation to collapsing pulsars, I want to do my own thing!'

Medical student overdrafts...careers in the law.

'Mom, Dad. I've made up my mind. I'm going to skip college, hire an agent, and pin all my hopes on a professional bass fishing careers.'

Brian, I hope you're taking this seriously.

"Baldo, I don't care what you are...as long as you're good at it."

'To be honest I only became a vicar to get my children into the C of E school.'

"Remember, son, you can be anything you want to be...except for maybe an aroma therapist."

"I've made a fortune as a successful artist! I couldn't see this happening if I became a soldier or a worker..."

'Son I want you to Follow in My Footsteps.'

'I told you I'd make you a star.'

"That'll be the day!"