0:00:06.348,0:00:08.923 Nancy Spero[br]Becoming an Artist 0:00:11.134,0:00:14.618 I felt doomed to be an artist early on, 0:00:14.869,0:00:18.538 because of the way I drew[br]all over the margins of my textbooks 0:00:18.938,0:00:21.201 rather than actually doing the classwork. 0:00:21.633,0:00:25.017 I was never interested[br]in doing anything else. 0:00:25.017,0:00:26.618 I hadn't liked high school, 0:00:26.618,0:00:28.986 I hadn't liked university, 0:00:28.986,0:00:32.621 but I LOVED art school. 0:00:33.047,0:00:36.775 So that's when I decided to be an artist, 0:00:37.154,0:00:39.198 just to go at it. 0:00:42.355,0:00:46.387 But I was kind of worried[br]about being an artist. 0:00:46.545,0:00:50.795 That was the only thing I felt I could do,[br]was draw and paint. 0:00:50.952,0:00:53.865 and it was the only thing I wanted to do. 0:00:53.865,0:00:56.618 And yet for some strange reason 0:00:56.618,0:01:00.696 I think I felt that[br]it wasn't of use to society.