Yolanda King Quotes

Before I reached 10 years old, I knew I was going to be an artist.

I really want to continue doing art. I would love to go back to doing paintings one day.

I always knew that I wanted to be an artist.

I went to school at the San Francisco Art Institute, thinking I was going to become an art teacher. Within the first six months I was there, I was told that I couldn't be an art teacher unless I became an artist first.

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.

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

Artists were always referred to as great artists. I thought that's what the profession was. One word: great-artist. There wasn't one moment in my life when I thought I wanted to be anything else.

I originally just wanted to be an artist.

There were a million different things I could have chosen or wanted to do, but the path of an artist was the one that pulled me the most.

Drawing and visual arts was kinda my first passion going all the way back to when I was a kid. I always felt like it was what I was supposed to do - but in reality I don't know that I ever had the skill to make it a profession.

I started making art during high school but thought I lacked the talent to become a true artist.

Kanye is a student of art. He's an art-school-dropout type of kid that will talk about art till the cows come home.

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.

I will be an artist. I am sure I will. [Vincent Van Gogh]

I was a commercial artist when I left school, but luckily I became an actor. I've painted for many, many years. Now the last few years it's gotten more serious.

Until I began to learn to draw, I was never much interested in looking at art.

I love painting. I went to college in fine arts, and I still do it all the time.

I liked drawing and painting, because the only failure would be to listen to the doubters who wanted me to stop drawing and painting because 'you aren't going to make a living doing that.' I liked looking in art books at the work of painters.

Anything that had to do with art I been doing all my life. It was a gift. It's nothing I work real hard at doing.

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

I feel like I became an artist by default. I went to art college, but my interest was always more towards film than painting or sculpture.

I always thought being an artist was a lazy job. I was wrong.

My father was a professional artist all his life who encouraged my path as an artist.

Few people know that I am also an artist; I truly enjoy sketching and drawing.