Karl Lagerfeld Quotes

I wanted to be a cartoonist when I was young.

I never wanted to be a writer. I wanted to be a book illustrator. I used to hurry home from school and draw.

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

Ever since I was a kid, I might have been eleven or twelve. I'd be telling anyone who would listen that when I grew up, I wanted to be an artist.

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

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

I grew up wanting only to be an illustrator. I studied art at Laurel School in Cleveland and at Smith College.

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

I think my original ambition was to be an artist.

I knew I wanted to be some kind of artist from about 12. I met a neighbour who drew cartoons, and I had an idea I wanted to be a cartoonist - or something that involved Indian ink, at any rate.

In my youth I dreamed of being an illustrator.

I always knew that I wanted to be an artist.

When I was very, very young, seven years old, I heard there was school where you could go to learn to draw. That was my absolute driven passion, to become an artist or a painter. So the romantic realist in me, I studied to be a graphic design artist and an art teacher.

I wanted to become a cartoon artist, a portrait artist, and an illustrator. This was my first idea.

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 wanted to be an artist; it was be an artist or be an actor.

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

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

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.

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

I used to draw and illustrate, but I don't do that anymore because I just like to write. I like to leave the illustrations to actual professional illustrators.

I wanted to be a painter, really, when I was growing up as a kid. It was one thing that really took a grip on me.

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