Sean Bean Quotes

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

When I got into art school, I thought it was paradise. I wanted to be an artist so much that I was really driven and nothing could stop me.

I want to create a thousand paintings, maybe two thousand paintings, as many as I can draw.

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

In my youth I dreamed of being an illustrator.

This image of wanting to be an artist - that I would in some way become an artist -was very strong. I knew for a long, long time that that's what I would be. But nothing I ever did seemed to bring me any nearer to the condition of being an artist. And I didn't know how to do it.

Somebody said us artists have trouble with success because art is derived from struggle. I disagree with that, because truely doing your art is success, whether you make money from it or not.

I don't paint to live, I live to paint.

Great art is never produced for its own sake. It is too difficult to be worth the effort.

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

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

I've always wanted to make a career in the arts, and I think that my only hope at doing that is to make it more about the work.

I want to work in art forever.

I always knew that I was an artist. I never expected to be able to make a living.

But where there is no art show, I would still be painting.

I hate to sound like a romantic adolescent, but I believe artists don't generally see art as a career choice; they simply can't overcome their desire to make art, and will live on little income for as long as they have to, before they start to sell their work - or give up and get a paying job.

Do not think that I have stopped painting, for at any moment, I am liable to paint a good picture.

I read a very romantic book when I was young, when I was in college: Rilke's 'Letters to a Young Poet.' And I've always felt that if you are in any kind of an artistic, creative endeavor, and you feel there's something else you can do for a living and be happy, I think you should do something else.

I want to be an artist artist, a real artist. I don't just want to do this for temporary money.

Me wanting to be an artist never really faded away. I knew that no matter what else I tried to pursue, my passion was always that.

I think my original ambition was to be an artist.

My primary thing is to make a painting, not necessarily to make a painting to sell for gazillions of dollars, but just to make a painting.

There's only one reason for my whole life, and that's art. Nothing else counts; nothing else gives me pleasure; nothing else gives me satisfaction.

I feel lucky that I've been able to make a living from painting any idea that comes into my head.