Art Quote by Don McLean

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

— Dick Bruna

I set my sights upon becoming the kind of artist who would make a contribution to art history

— Judy Chicago

I thought it would be very nice to become Picasso or Rembrandt, or a van Gogh.

— Dick Bruna

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

— Jonathan Pryce

Seriously, I wanted to be an artist because I saw that it meant endless possibilities. I came from a badly managed family background, so…

— Anonymous

My father had wanted to be a commercial artist. He got as far as being a photographer in the army in World War II,…

— David Salle

“I asked Bill what career path he thought I should take, and he replied, “Live the artist’s life.” For years I pondered over his…

— Mallory M. O'Connor

I wanted to be a painter and an artist. And it's interesting that in some of my later musical works, I refer so often…

— Gunther Schuller

I always wanted to be an artist, whatever that was, like other chicks want to be stewardesses. I read. I painted. I thought.

— Janis Joplin

I came to New York to be a fine artist - that was my ambition.

— David Byrne

I never wanted to be called an artist. I wanted to be called a photographer.

— Richard Avedon

At the very beginning of my career I felt very strongly about what type of artist I wanted to be.

— Miranda Lambert