Andy Warhol made fame more famous.

Mickey Mouse... is always there-he's part of my life. That really is something not everyone can call their claim to fame.

Ambition has but one reward for all: A little power, a little transient fame; A grave to rest in, and a fading name!

I do not like the man who squanders life for fame; give me the man who living makes a name.

The reward of art is not fame or success but intoxication: that is why so many bad artists are unable to give it up.

Some of the most famous books are the least worth reading. Their fame was due to their having done something that needed to be doing in their day. The work is done and the virtue of the book has expired.

The talent of success is nothing more than doing what you can do well, and doing well whatever you do without thought of fame. If it comes at all it will come because it is deserved, not because it is sought after.

Don't confuse fame with success. Madonna is one; Helen Keller is the other.

If a man loves the labour of his trade, apart from any question of success or fame, the gods have called him.

Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.

I'm not after fame and success and fortune and power. It's mostly that I want to have a good job and have good friends; that's the good stuff in life.

He who would acquire fame must not show himself afraid of censure. The dread of censure is the death of genius.

If you modestly enjoy your fame you are not unworthy to rank with the holy.

He had no failings which were not owing to a noble cause; to an ardent, generous, perhaps an immoderate passion for fame; a passion which is the instinct of all great souls.

Love of fame is the last thing even learned men can bear to be parted from.

I may be revered or defamed and decried; But I tried to live my life right.