I decided to become a painter when my first four paintings where all published and attracted a great deal of interest. I exhibited one of them and it was sold.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I was an artist - I fancied myself an artist - I sold paintings at bars to pay my rent.
I wanted to be a painter.
I set my sights upon becoming the kind of artist who would make a contribution to art history.
In my previous life, I was an artist. I still paint. I love art.
When I left school, I wanted to be an artist, specifically a painter.
I've been working in sculpture and painting since 1920.
My mother encouraged me to be artistic. It was written in a contract at an early age that I would be an artist.
I painted. I wanted to be a painter. I sang.
I did painting before I did photography.
My work, in a certain way, got started in 1996 when I did an exhibition of thirteen paintings that were solely based on fashion imagery.