At the age of six I wanted to be a cook. At seven I wanted to be Napoleon. And my ambition has been growing steadily ever since. Salvador Dali
Ambition often puts men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same position with creeping. Jonathan Swift
God is not dead but alive and well and working on a much more ambitious project. Graffiti
Ambition it is the last infirmity of noble minds. J. M. Barrie
Ambition is the last refuge of the failure. Oscar Wilde
Ambition if it feeds at all, does so on the ambition of others. Susan Sontag
The slave has but one master, the ambitious man has as many as there are persons whose aid may contribute to the advancement of his fortunes. Jean de La Bruyθre
No bird soars too high, if he soars with his own wings. William Blake
Ambition is a Dead Sea fruit, and the greatest peril to the soul is that one is likely to get precisely what he is seeking. Edward Dahlberg
If men cease to believe that they will one day become gods then they will surely become worms. Henry Miller
I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to. Elvis Presley
Working in the theater has a lot in common with unemployment. Arthur Gingold
You can make a killing as a playwright in America, but you can't make a living. Sherwood Anderson
I always suspect an artist who is successful before he is dead. John Murray Fitzgibbon
It is very good advice to believe only what an artist does, rather than what he says about his work. David Hockney
When actors begin to think, it's time for a change. They are not fitted for it. Stephen Leacock
Individuality of expression is the beginning and end of all art. Johannes Wolfgang von Goethe
Modern art is when you buy a picture to cover a hole in the wall and then decide that the hole looks much better. Unknown wise person
Extraordinary how potent cheap music is. Noλl Coward
No one has ever written, painted, sculpted, modeled, built, or invented except literally to get out of hell. Antonin Artaud
If more than ten percent of the public likes a painting, it should be burned. George Bernard Shaw