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Nancy Spero[br]Becoming an Artist

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I felt doomed to be an artist early on,

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because of the way I drew[br]all over the margins of my textbooks

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rather than actually doing the classwork.

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I was never interested[br]in doing anything else.

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I hadn't liked high school,

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I hadn't liked university,

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but I LOVED art school.

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So that's when I decided to be an artist,

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just to go at it.

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But I was kind of worried[br]about being an artist.

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That was the only thing I felt I could do,[br]was draw and paint.

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and it was the only thing I wanted to do.

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And yet for some strange reason

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I think I felt that[br]it wasn't of use to society.