Quotes About Ambition

She'd like to model or maybe act or star in a magazine. Before she signs any big contracts, she better learn how to read.

I thought I'd definitely be a writer, whatever I did.

It was men's ambitions, they said, that had perverted all the arts to ends of gain.

Fear not, Cesario, take thy fortunes up. Be that thou know'st thou art and then thou art as great as that thou fear'st.

Happy thou art not; for what thou hast not, still thou strivest to get; and what thou hast, forgettest.

O, had I but followed the arts!

I think the most important thing is to establish myself as an actor. As much as it's a performing art, I'm not really a performer.

You must have chaos within you to give birth to a dancing star.

When bankers get together for dinner, they discuss Art. When artists get together for dinner, they discuss Money

An artist who desires very little and achieves it has failed in life.

Always suffer delusions of grandeur with your art. What you are unable to face will never hurt you

Trying to live up to yourself is the most trying thing.

I want to be famous but unknown!

I would rather fail as an artist than succeed as anything else.

..if I dont do something on the grand scale, it is that my genius is altogether imitative, and that I have nor recently encountered any very striking models of grandeur.

The harder you work, the more you produce, the more you create, the more you will be rejected. By people who never created shit.

I've done everything I wanted to do, writing books, learning about things, but I've been swindled all the same because it's never anything more.

If you don't know it's impossible, it's easier to do.

Realized dreams often turn into nightmares.

Success or Failure, there should always be a Drive to Keep on Creating.

Art school had taught me it was far better to be a flamboyant failure than any kind of benign success.

I couldn't live on the singing at first, so I worked as a cleaner, in a launderette, in a garage, face painting and doing the windows of shops at Christmas, 'cause I had been to art college.

I set my sights upon becoming the kind of artist who would make a contribution to art history.

The biggest asset you have is your earning capacity, and that depends entirely on your attitude.