I won’t be happy till I’m as famous as God.
—Madonna, c. 1985
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Now there is fame! Of all—hunger, misery, the incomprehension by the public—fame is by far the worst. It is the castigation by God of the artist. It is sad. It is true.
—Pablo Picasso, c. 1961I would much rather have men ask why I have no statue than why I have one.
—Cato the Elder, c. 184 BCFame is but the empty noise of madmen.
—Epictetus, c. 100He who treats another human being as divine thereby assigns to himself the relative status of a child or an animal.
—E. R. Dodds, 1951All people have the common desire to be elevated in honor, but all people have something still more elevated in themselves without knowing it.
—Mencius, c. 330 BC