Henry Ossawa Tanner Quotes

I originally just wanted to be an artist.

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

I always knew that I wanted to be an artist.

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

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.

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

Is an artist much more than a beggar?

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

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

By the time I was 12, I had decided to be an artist.

It's like I'm basically an artist. I'm no different from a painter who sits there and loves what he does.

Art is a gift and if nobody hears it, that doesn't make it any less of a gift.

I always knew I was gonna be an artist. I was very confident in that.

As an artist, I really feel I need an outlet to exhibit all of my skills.

I wish I could paint that picture. As a 20-year-old kid, that was a big thrill.

Music has always been a part of me and art in general. I love visual art as well.

My first artistic love was drawing and painting.

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.

One of my first dreams when I was a child was becoming a painter.

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

In my previous life, I was an artist. I still paint. I love art.