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My mother encouraged me to be artistic. It was written in a contract at an early age that I would be an artist.

My mom and I were super tight. I think she really wanted me to be an artist, you know? She used to like to tell people she wanted to be Beethoven's mother. That was her thing. She wanted to be the mother of this person.

I come from a family of business people, but I had the idea I wanted to become an artist.

I always knew that I wanted to be an artist.

My parents always saw me as an artist, and that greatly influenced me.

I was raised to be some kind of artist.

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

My mother was an artist, and I was fairly good at art as a child. I was always the best drawer in class, except in second grade when an artistic genius passed through our school!