Quotes About Ambition

I believe I can do things people think are impossible.

When you stop wanting something, you get it.

I didn't know how a working-class girl like me could possibly make a living in the art world

Nothing in the world is more common than unsuccessful people with talent, leave the house before you find something worth staying in for.

Midas, they say, possessed the art of old; Of turning whatsoe'er he touch'd to gold; This modern statesmen can reverse with ease - Touch them with gold, they'll turn to what you please.

Art, art of any kind, shows that folks are trying.

You see, my ambition was not to confound the engineering world but simply to create a beautiful piece of art.

There is nothing so terrible as the pursuit of art by those who have no talent.

They speak of "This Dojo" and "That Dojo". They are looking for profit.

Well to be perfectly frank with you I never created art or have done demonstrations for anyone before myself artistically. I always do it to try to push my own envelope to be the best I can be.

To be able to endure odium is the first art to be learned by those who aspire to power.

All these poses of classical torture ruined my mind like a snake in the orchard. I did go from wanting to be someone, now I'm drunk and wearing flip-flops on Fifth Avenue.

I'd prostitute my talents if it would further my cause, steal if there was no way out, killing my friends or anyone else if it would help my art.

An artist's career always begins tomorrow

A small artist is content with art; a great artist is content with nothing except everything.

It seems very unfortunate that in order to secure political preference, people are made Vice President who are never intended, neither by party nor by the Lord, to be Presidents.

The naturalist picked up the eagle and said to it, "Thou dost belong to the sky and not to this earth; stretch forth thy wings and fly."

Any blockhead can arrange a sublet. All I ever wanted was to support myself on art.

The fine arts thing at college was always too much for me to think about. What I was more involved in was being successful at arts school.

I'd rather produce art than become art.

The end of the republic is to enervate and to weaken all other bodies so as to increase its own body.

All arts his own, the hungry Greekling counts; And bid him mount the skies, the skies he mounts.

In my brain all I think about is fame.

I never studied sculpture, engineering or architecture. In fact, after college I applied to seven art schools and was rejected by all seven.