David LaChapelle Quotes

One day I would like to have my own art show.

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.

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

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

I originally just wanted to be an artist.

I want to create a thousand paintings, maybe two thousand paintings, as many as I can draw.

I may not be much good at most things, but if I didn't have the pleasure of planning and installing shows, and doing it better than anyone else, I would have stopped buying art many years ago.

This image of wanting to be an artist - that I would in some way become an artist -was very strong. I knew for a long, long time that that's what I would be. But nothing I ever did seemed to bring me any nearer to the condition of being an artist. And I didn't know how to do it.

Then I abandoned comics for fine art because I had some romantic vision of being like Vincent Van Gogh Jr.

I always knew that I wanted to be an artist.

I wanted to be a painter.

When I got into art school, I thought it was paradise. I wanted to be an artist so much that I was really driven and nothing could stop me.

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.

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

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

One of the expectations growing up was that I'd become a well-known artist.

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

Me wanting to be an artist never really faded away. I knew that no matter what else I tried to pursue, my passion was always that.

I always knew I was gonna be an artist. I was very confident in that.

My primary thing is to make a painting, not necessarily to make a painting to sell for gazillions of dollars, but just to make a painting.

In my youth I dreamed of being an illustrator.

I don't paint to live, I live to paint.

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