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I always knew I wanted to be a performance artist.

I knew I wanted to be an artist, but I didn't really know what it was I wanted to say.

I always knew that I was an artist. I never expected to be able to make a living.

By the time I was a teenager, I knew I wanted to be an artist. I was a born draftsman and liked all forms of art, so I just knew that's what I wanted to do.

I knew I was artistic, and I wanted to do something in the arts.

I guess I've always liked the idea of being an artist.

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

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

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.

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