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

I grew up wanting to be a painter and paint pictures.

I wanted to be an abstract painter, but I was rotten at it.

I wanted to be a painter, really, when I was growing up as a kid. It was one thing that really took a grip on me.

I tried to be a house painter, but I couldn't stand all that paint all over me.

In fact, I thought my calling was to be 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 had wanted to be a sculptor throughout life, but to do so, I had to stop painting.