I wanted to get out of this country and experience different ways of seeing the world. So I went to Europe, but I went as an artist. I was increasing my skill set and exploring storytelling through painting.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I barely knew I wanted to be an artist. I liked my art classes and painting was fun, I guess, but I didn't realize that seeing the country was going to inspire me to further explore that... but that's what it did.
When I left school, I wanted to be an artist, specifically a painter.
I wanted to be a painter.
I come from the deep countryside. My family was in farming. I was not really exposed to business. Coming from that environment, I just wanted in my life to go overseas - that was a childhood dream because I wanted diversity, contacts, cultural meetings with others.
I'm a painter, really. To be successful, you have to go to Hollywood, and I didn't like to travel.
I painted. I wanted to be a painter. I sang.
I wanted to become an artist because it meant endless possibilities. Art was a way of reinventing myself.
I just wanted to be an artist. I didn't care how or what; I just wanted to express my artistic integrity, and I wanted the world to have a vision of what I was seeing in my mind.
I always wanted to be a painter. I loved painting. I went on three different art courses but had no talent whatsoever.
I wanted to be an artist. I was studying art. I wanted to be a great painter. When I went into the Navy, there wasn't much to draw at sea. So I began writing, and I began reading a lot.