If I had parallel lives to pursue, I would also want one as a painter.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I wanted to be a painter.
I will be a historical painter.
I grew up wanting to be a painter and paint pictures.
In another life, I would love to be the art guy - a production designer or a maybe even a composer.
Well, one always has an instinct to be a painter, and I've done quite a lot of painting at one time or another, though not with any public success.
I would have liked maybe to be in architecture or painting, something connected to the fine arts.
When I left school, I wanted to be an artist, specifically a painter.
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.
I was too practical to want to be a painter.
If the newspapers cut me up so much that I shall not venture before the world again, I have resolved to become a house painter; that would be as easy as anything else, and I should, at any rate, still be an artist!