Patti Smith Quotes

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

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

I decided that what I really wanted to do was go off and paint.

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

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 always wanted to be a painter. I loved painting. I went on three different art courses but had no talent whatsoever.

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

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

I wanted to be a painter.

I love art and I think I was destined to end up in some aspect of the arts.

Some people have been kind enough to call me a fine artist. I've always called myself an illustrator. I'm not sure what the difference is. All I know is that whatever type of work I do, I try to give it my very best. Art has been my life.

My first artistic love was drawing and painting.

I've been working in sculpture and painting since 1920.

I always knew that I wanted to be an artist.

I was too practical to want to be a painter.

Now I'm a painter. That was another opportunity I was able to pursue, I've been painting all my life, now it's become a second career because of my success in the movies.

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 have had an interest in art since childhood. I loved to draw as a child and still do.

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.