Quotes About Ambition

Once they witnessed one of his painting sold at auction for $100,000. And asked how you do it, he said, 'I feel as a horse must feel when the beautiful cup is given to the jockey.'

Someday I'm gonna be famous. Do I have talent, well, no. These days you really don't need it.

As a kid, I was heavily into martial arts and wanted to be the next Jean-Claude Van Damme.

I always wanted to be an artist, I just didn't know that you could be, or how you could be. I went to an art high school but they never even took me to a gallery.

If you leave your art, the world will beat you back to it. The world has not an ambition worth sharing, or a prize worth handling.

I stepped into the martial arts movie market when I was only 16.

I went to New York in 1974, to either try to get a record deal, get into the New York Art Student League, or be a dancer. So that was my plan. Some plan. And I had no money.

Young artists must pave their way to Art by drawing pictures for magazine stories that young authors write to pave their way to Literature.

When I got into the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, a doctor told me to give up the course as I'd be totally deaf within a couple of years. But I refused to give in.

It seems likely that many of the young who don't wait for others to call them artists, but simply announce that they are, don't have the patience to make art.

I quite like it to be risky. I'm not ready to sit down in a chair with my name on it yet. I've arrived at that point in the art world where there really is a chair that you sit in.

Megacollectors suppose they can enter art history by spending astronomical amounts.

I always wanted to be a doctor and go to art school, but I thought Id regret it if I didnt act.

I think it was a matter of, like, I'm not going to have my kids in these wild streets. Both my twin brother and I were in art school together.

Why settle for the art world when you can have the whole world?

I really wasn't about to get a Ph.D. in art history, you know, which you'd absolutely needed. And that was not something I wanted. And I loved art history, but not that way.

I knew my ticket out of the suburbs was art school, so I worked really hard to develop my portfolio and get a scholarship.

When I got into art school, I thought it was paradise. I wanted to be an artist so much that I was really driven and nothing could stop me.

I never thought, "I'm going to be an artist". When I actually began to become successful in the art world I made it a point to say, 'I am a dilettante, I am not a professional artist", which is true.

we know the art of success; never forget

I've never really dreamed of owning a home. I don't think you go into the arts and also dream of owning a home.

I always knew that I'd probably do something in the arts.

I'm fully aware had I stayed with my art, I would be well known, respected and most likely rich.

Fortune or fame, you must pick one or the other, though neither of them are to be what they claim.