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

I always knew that I wanted to be an artist.

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.

My desire to be an artist really came out of being broke and unemployed and incapable of holding a job down. That's what it was driven by for sure.

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

Seriously, I wanted to be an artist because I saw that it meant endless possibilities. I came from a badly managed family background, so art was a way of reinventing myself.

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.

Something in me was instinctively drawn to the life of a misunderstood, brilliant and wilful artist. I wanted to become one.