Flume Quotes

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

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

It's always fun to play someone like an action hero that you always wanted to play as a child. I think every young boy loves that as a kid.

I wanted to become an illustrator as a child.

I wanted to be a bus driver when I was a kid. I look at bus driving through the eyes of a little boy. I see it as glamorous.

When I was about 5 I think, I desperately wanted to be a pirate and have the hat and everything.

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.

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

I don't have an exact moment when I decided I wanted to be an actress - it kind of was just really a part of my growing up.

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.

For most of my career I illustrated books for other people.

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.

I had a strong propensity, which I still have, to be invisible. In grade school, I'd try to disappear and become formless. I lived in a very imaginary world. I loved poetry and wrote my first novel when I was 9. It was about a little girl and the people she met in the woods.

I wanted nothing less than to be a fiction writer when I was a kid. If you had told me I would be an artist or novelist when I grew up, I would have laughed in your face.

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.

As early as when I was five or six I wanted to perform.

There were a lot of choices to make and I always picked artist. I never once picked doctor, lawyer, firemen or something like that. It was always artist.

I knew what I wanted to do from the time I was 5.

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 didn't want to be a writer. First I wanted to act, and then I wanted to be a painter like my big sister.

The oldest of the arts and the youngest of the professions.

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

I thought I would be Sheena of the Jungle as a little girl.

I've always wanted to make a career in the arts, and I think that my only hope at doing that is to make it more about the work.

I remember clearly watching a 'Sooty Show' at a theatre and telling my mum I wanted to be up with the puppets, not in the audience.