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Being a studio make-up artist and working on magazines was the only thing I wanted to do.

I always wanted to be an artist, but I didn't really know how someone could make a life out it.

My desire to be an artist really came out of being broke and unemployed and incapable of holding a job down. That's what it was driven by for sure.

I just wanted to be an artist. I didn't care how or what; I just wanted to express my artistic integrity, and I wanted the world to have a vision of what I was seeing in my mind.

This image of wanting to be an artist - that I would in some way become an artist -was very strong. I knew for a long, long time that that's what I would be. But nothing I ever did seemed to bring me any nearer to the condition of being an artist. And I didn't know how to do it.

I wanted to be a painter.

I wanted to become an artist because it meant endless possibilities. Art was a way of reinventing myself.

When I left school, I wanted to be an artist, specifically a painter.