The Path to a Fine Artist

I feel like on your path, you knew what you wanted to do or at least loosely, it seems like you're on a path to become a fine artist. Did you go through a period personally where you all of a sudden said, wait a second, there's something more that I have to do and yeah, I did. But what age were you when that happened? For me, it was around my late twenties when I started to just, I had that same feeling, why can't this just be a photograph? What am I trying to do with my time? When was it for you? Well,  it might have come a little bit earlier for me, but it