I would much rather have men ask why I have no statue than why I have one.
—Cato the Elder, c. 184 BC
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They are trying to make me into a fixed star. I am an irregular planet.
—Martin Luther, c. 1530Happy is the man who hath never known what it is to taste of fame—to have it is a purgatory, to want it is a hell!
—Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1843Now 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. 1961Fame is but the empty noise of madmen.
—Epictetus, c. 100I’m afraid of losing my obscurity. Genuineness only thrives in the dark. Like celery.
—Aldous Huxley, 1925