Art Quote by John Lloyd Young

No one really had to encourage me to become an artist; it was just something I knew I had to do. I was drawn…

— Keiynan Lonsdale

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…

— Rita Ora

I wanted to become an artist because it meant endless possibilities. Art was a way of reinventing myself.

— Sam Taylor-Wood

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

— Miranda Lambert

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

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

— Julie Mehretu

How did I come to be an artist ? Endless curiosity, observation, research - and a great amount of joy in the thing

— George Grosz

This image of wanting to be an artist - that I would in some way become an artist -was very strong. I knew for…

— Jasper Johns

Like so many other nerdy, disaffected young people of that time, I dreamed of becoming an 'artist', i.e., somebody whose adult job was original…

— David Foster Wallace

What experience has shown me is that it takes your life to become an artist.

— Eric Fischl

I became an artist because I couldn't become anything else.

— Mati Klarwein

I always knew that I wanted to be an artist.

— Maynard James Keenan