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. 1961
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We all have a contract with the public—in us they see themselves, or what they would like to be.
—Clark Gable, 1935Worldly fame is but a breath of wind that blows now this way, now that, and changes names as it changes in direction.
—Dante Alighieri, c. 1315Reality is always the foe of famous names.
—Petrarch, 1337Men are generally more pleased with a widespread than with a great reputation.
—Pliny the Younger, c. 110There lurks in every human heart a desire of distinction which inclines every man first to hope and then to believe that nature has given him something peculiar to himself.
—Samuel Johnson, 1763