Jackson Pollock Quotes

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

I would have been an artist, because I studied art and history in school and college.

Well, one always has an instinct to be a painter, and I've done quite a lot of painting at one time or another, though not with any public success.

I originally just wanted to be an artist.

I think my original ambition was to be an artist.

Art was always my thing. I had an art scholarship before I had a football scholarship. I'm a left-handed, right-brained, painting-drawing guy. That was always my skill.

An amateur may not be an artist, though an artist should be an amateur.

I loved to draw. I always did. I started when I was about five years old.

I was always an artist. I was a broker to earn a living, but I was always thinking about my art.

I wanted to be an artist, because it's a much better scam than being an architect.

No matter what your age or your life path, whether making art is your career or your hobby or your dream, it is not too late or too egotistical or too selfish or too silly to work on your creativity.

I knew I wanted to be an artist at age 5 or 6. I always drew. At 8, I was permitted to study.

In fact, I thought my calling was to be a painter.

I grew up wanting to be a painter and paint pictures.

I wanted to be a painter.

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.

When I was in high school, I thought I might be an artist. I was very good at drawing and painting.

I decided on the spot that I would be an artist, and I assure you, it was no ordinary artist I had in mind.

The oldest of the arts and the youngest of the professions.

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

I believe entertainment can aspire to be art, and can become art, but if you set out to make art you're an idiot.

I didn't have any real idea that I was going to be an artist; I had no idea what that meant.

I dreamed of being an artist.

My sole ambition as a composer is to hurl my javelin into the infinite space of the future.

Art - I had never thought of that as a career because it was like something I did so naturally, and it was fluid, and it is. And even though I still admire literature as the superior art form, I have to admit that art, for me, that's it; that's what I'm good at, and that's what I should be concentrating on.