There is not in the world so toilsome a trade as the pursuit of fame; life concludes before you have so much as sketched your work.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I'm not into fame. I'm not into making money, outside of financing my books. I'm not into status. My thing is basically about time - not wasting it.
I don't have a problem with fame. I got into this business intending to be very successful, but I wanted it to be at my price.
It has been my fate in a long life of production to be credited chiefly with the equivocal virtue of industry, a quality so excellent in morals, so little satisfactory in art.
I think, most of the time, fame is just an inconvenience that needs to be negotiated around to get done what you're actually trying to do.
All fame ever does for you is get attention for the work you really want to do.
At a certain point, if you work really hard and you get good and people like your work, you do deserve the fame - but you shouldn't take it for granted.
If you try to go beyond your interests just for the sake of pretensions or wealth, your art becomes less legitimate.
You're asking the wrong girl about fame. I'm hardly famous. I wouldn't want to trade places with anyone else.
I think fame comes from actually doing something big with your career.
It's not about the fame and the money because if you do good work all that stuff comes.