Paint-splattered Dreamer Gifts

"Too busy."

"I can't believe I have my very own airbrush! As an artist, I will paint the truth without fear of retribution or damage to my career."

"Why is it always me that has to get up just as I'm falling asleep to do things I forgot."

'I imagine you'll be asking for a full refund.'

"Someday, Sweetheart, you’ll look back on this day and think to yourself, ‘Covid ruined my college experience.’"

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

The world's most unemployable family

"I like it, honey ... it speaks to what a waste of time your MFA was."

'And the Dance Scholarship goes to...'

Children's imagination

Like many kids, Bobby had an imaginary friend. Unfortunately for Bobby, he was a critic.

"Sorry, you're not cut out to be a mime artist."

"Great money scenes!"

"Have you give any thought to my suggestion about a sculpture that's just a chubby kid constantly peeing."

The end of innocence

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

An artist creates a sculpture of a "thumbs up" and is then crushed by it.

"This gives me the inner fulfillment I could never achieve through dodgeball."

"Snowflakes that stay on my nose and eyelashes..."

"I thought this was the Vermeer tour."

Gene Tierney caricature

A. A. Milne

'When I grow up, Grandpa, I want to be just like you...retired!'

Lawrence of Suburbia

'It all started when I took a Rorschach test.'

'I thought I could dance...'

An artist blows smoke that forms into a cloud which rains onto his canvas.

Edward Loves Mae Marsh

"That painting's not going to paint itself."

'Dauber Micawber'

"I want to get in touch with my inner child. I need the tech support."

Claude Debussy

'I am a staving artist. I'm fat because all I can afford is junk food!'

'I just want to be taken seriously as an artist.'