Paul Simonon Quotes

I wanted to be a painter.

I originally just wanted to be an artist.

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

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

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

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.

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

The boyhood dream of becoming a painter stays important to me.

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

My first artistic love was drawing and painting.

I wanted to become an illustrator as a child.

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

As soon as I can afford a studio space, I'll paint again.

You will see, in the future I will live by my watercolors.

Before I reached 10 years old, I knew I was going 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.

When I was quite young, I dreamed of being a painter.

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 make paintings, try to get others to look at them and hopefully buy them.

In a perfect world, I would be a painter. I love working with my hands. I don't get to do it as much as I like, but I am finding a way to make more time as life goes on because it's a really great outlet for me to express myself.

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

My main thing was painting; I was just going to do that.

I think my original ambition was to be an artist.

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

I wanted to be a painter, somewhere between Abstract Expressionism and Pop.