Art Quote by Sean Scully

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

— Sam Taylor-Wood

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 didn't think of being an artist until after I went away to boarding school. There were other things to be interested in. And…

— Elizabeth Neel

Art was a last, desperate attempt for me to be able to exist in the world after trying very hard not to exist in…

— Kirsha Kaechele

I barely knew I wanted to be an artist. I liked my art classes and painting was fun, I guess, but I didn't realize…

— Edward Ruscha

When I went to art school, I was just having fun. I realised that was the last chance I had, and then I would…

— John Baldessari

I love art and I think I was destined to end up in some aspect of the arts.

— Ken Baumann

Once I started reinventing for myself what being an artist was - not going into a studio, but making things on my own terms…

— Cornelia Parker

I wanted to get out of this country and experience different ways of seeing the world. So I went to Europe, but I went…

— Robert Redford

I always wanted to be an artist, I just didn't know that you could be, or how you could be. I went to an…

— Francesca DiMattio

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

— Jonathan Pryce

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