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I went to school at the San Francisco Art Institute, thinking I was going to become an art teacher. Within the first six months I was there, I was told that I couldn't be an art teacher unless I became an artist first.

— Annie Leibovitz

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

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

— Jonathan Pryce

I went to art high school and thought I'd be a painter. Unfortunately I didn't finish high school, but that's always been part of my work.

— David LaChapelle

When I was in high school, I thought I might be an artist. I was very good at drawing and painting.

— Roma Downey

I went to art school when I was little.

— Amanda Seyfried

I became an art major, took every art class my school had to offer. In college, I majored in Advertising Art and Design.

— Len Wein

I always wanted to be a painter. I loved painting. I went on three different art courses but had no talent whatsoever.

— John Burnside

When I was in high school, I was going to be a painter because I had a facility for painting. I could do it, but I didn't have anything to say in that medium.

— Ellen McLaughlin

I kind of just lucked into and fell into the other profession. It was really just an outgrowth of the fact that when I was in art school, I had no money whatsoever.

— Martin Mull

I went to art school, and I wanted to be an artist since I was 5. I basically moved to New York to do art, and I just sort of fell into doing music at an early age.

— Kim Gordon

✗Opposing Perspectives

My major was Fine Arts and Education thinking I would become an Art Teacher. I couldn't visualize myself as an art teacher, thinking how it wouldn't work.

— Mark Mothersbaugh