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