Melanie Martinez Quotes

I originally just wanted to be an artist.

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

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

I always knew that I wanted to be an artist.

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

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

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.

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 knew my focus was going to be somewhere in the arts. I've always painted. I've always sung. I didn't know when or how it was going to happen - or what it was going to be.

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

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.

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 wanted to be a painter.

When I was in high school, I was going to be a painter because I had a facility for painting. I could do it, but I didn't have anything to say in that medium.

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

Is an artist much more than a beggar?

I always wanted to be an artist, whatever that was, like other chicks want to be stewardesses. I read. I painted. I thought.

When I heard that there were artists, I wished I could some time be one. If I could only make a rose bloom on paper, I thought I should be happy! Or if I could at last succeed in drawing the outline of winter-stripped boughs as I saw them against the sky, it seemed to me that I should be willing to spend years in trying.

I am only an artist.

I just call myself an artist, really.

I consider myself an artist, which is, like, the most played term, but I believe it.