--- title: "8 Wanting Artist Quotes by 8 authors" description: "Browse 8 Wanting Artist quotes by 8 authors. Discover the best Wanting Artist sayings and thoughts." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/afa/robert-genn-2179_art_a-young-person-wanting-to-become-an-arti_946618.png" --- > [A young person wanting to become an artist might simply go purposefully and dedicatedly to his or her room with a few…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-genn/a-young-person-wanting-to-become-an-artist-might-simply-go/) [Robert Genn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-genn/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/afa/robert-genn-2179_art_a-young-person-wanting-to-become-an-arti_946618.png) > [Mr. Searle became a satirist, he once said, because ‘in the late '30s, things in general and politics in particular were no…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ronald-searle/mr-searle-became-a-satirist-he-once-said-because-in-the-late-30s/) [Ronald Searle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ronald-searle/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e67/ronald-searle-110878_art_mr-searle-became-a-satirist-he-once-said_955791.jpg) > [Besides me wanting to be an artist, I wanted to be a movie star.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/patti-smith/besides-me-wanting-to-be-an-artist-i-wanted-to-be-a-movie-star/) [Patti Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/patti-smith/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a57/patti-smith-394_art_besides-me-wanting-to-be-an-artist-i-wan_1033078.jpg) > [There questions of wanting to be an artist, and what does that mean, what makes you an artist? Are you an artist…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/claire-messud/there-questions-of-wanting-to-be-an-artist-and-what-does-that-mean/) [Claire Messud](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/claire-messud/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9ef/claire-messud-1372_art_there-questions-of-wanting-to-be-an-arti_1925916.jpg) > [This image of wanting to be an artist - that I would in some way become an artist -was very strong. I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jasper-johns/this-image-of-wanting-to-be-an-artist-that-i-would-in-some-way-become/) [Jasper Johns](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jasper-johns/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/623/jasper-johns-8447_any_this-image-of-wanting-to-be-an-artist-th_2236165.jpg) > [Me wanting to be an artist never really faded away. I knew that no matter what else I tried to pursue, my…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/saweetie/me-wanting-to-be-an-artist-never-really-faded-away-i-knew-that-no/) [Saweetie](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/saweetie/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/028/saweetie-7816_always_me-wanting-to-be-an-artist-never-really_2351496.jpg) > [Once I knew that I wanted to be an artist, I had made myself into one. I did not understand that wanting…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/judy-chicago/once-i-knew-that-i-wanted-to-be-an-artist-i-had-made-myself-into-one/) [Judy Chicago](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/judy-chicago/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/24b/judy-chicago-22061_ability_once-i-knew-that-i-wanted-to-be-an-artis_2771213.jpg) > [My mother was always encouraging about my wanting to be an artist.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/chris-ware/my-mother-was-always-encouraging-about-my-wanting-to-be-an-artist/) [Chris Ware](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/chris-ware/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/214/chris-ware-8123_art_my-mother-was-always-encouraging-about-m_2891332.jpg) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/wanting-artist/#itemlist", "name": "Wanting Artist Quotes", "numberOfItems": 8, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "A young person wanting to become an artist might simply go purposefully and dedicatedly to his or her room with a few books and a thousand blank canvases for four years.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Robert Genn" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-genn/a-young-person-wanting-to-become-an-artist-might-simply-go/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/afa/robert-genn-2179_art_a-young-person-wanting-to-become-an-arti_946618.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/afa/robert-genn-2179_art_a-young-person-wanting-to-become-an-arti_946618.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/afa/robert-genn-2179_art_a-young-person-wanting-to-become-an-arti_946618.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“A young person wanting to become an artist might simply go purposefully and dedicatedly to his or her room…” — Robert Genn", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Mr. Searle became a satirist, he once said, because ‘in the late '30s, things in general and politics in particular were no longer neatly divided into things black and white. 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Many of the women had been raised without the sense that they could mold and shape their own lives, and so, wanting to be an artist (but without the ability to realize their wants) was, for some of them, only an idle fantasy, like wanting to go to the moon.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Judy Chicago" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/judy-chicago/once-i-knew-that-i-wanted-to-be-an-artist-i-had-made-myself-into-one/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/24b/judy-chicago-22061_ability_once-i-knew-that-i-wanted-to-be-an-artis_2771213.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/24b/judy-chicago-22061_ability_once-i-knew-that-i-wanted-to-be-an-artis_2771213.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/24b/judy-chicago-22061_ability_once-i-knew-that-i-wanted-to-be-an-artis_2771213.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Once I knew that I wanted to be an artist, I had made myself into one. 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