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-lived: 1782-1850...
Father, in spite of all this spending of money in learning Latin, I will be a painter. (William Allan)
A man's worth is no greater than the worth of his ambition. (Marcus Aurelius)
I got serious [about painting] at 12, when most people give up. (Robert Bateman)
A man, as a general rule, owes very little to what he is born with - a man is what he makes of himself. (Alexander Graham Bell)
ambition, n. An overmastering desire to be vilified by enemies while living and made ridiculous by friends when dead. (Ambrose Bierce)
No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings. (William Blake)
How often in life we complete a task that was beyond the capability of the person we were when we started it. (Robert Brault)
Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, said Browning, and so it has - extended by the length of an artist's brush. (Robert Brault)
Ambition is not what man does... but what man would do. (Robert Browning)
The slave has but one master; the ambitious man has as many as there are who can help his career. (Jean de La Bruyere)
The object of ambition, unlike that of love, never being wholly possessed, ambition is the more durable passion of the two. (Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton)
Set your sights high, the higher the better... Realize that nothing is too good. Allow absolutely nothing to hamper you or hold you up in any way. (Eileen Caddy)
I've got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom. (Thomas Carlyle)
When you're ambitious, it's really hard to be supportive of other people. But it's our job to try, even though one gets jealous. (Squeak Carnwath)
Those who desire to rise as high as our human condition allows, must renounce intellectual pride, the omnipotence of clear thinking, belief in the absolute power of logic. (Alexis Carrel)
We must not be too ambitious. We cannot aspire to masterpieces. We may content ourselves with a joy ride in a paint box. And, for this, Audacity is the only ticket. (Winston Churchill)
If you aspire to the highest place it is no disgrace to stop at the second, or even the third. (Cicero)
At the age of six I wanted to be a cook. At seven I wanted to be Napoleon. And my ambition has been growing steadily ever since. (Salvador Dali)
Everything starts with yourself – with you making up your mind about what you're going to do with your life. (Tony Dorsett)
If I had not had so much ambition and not tried to do so many things, I probably would have been happier, but less useful. (Thomas Edison)
Hitch your wagon to a star. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
The high prize of life, the crowning glory of a man is to be born with a bias to some pursuit which finds him in employment and happiness – whether it be to make baskets, or broadswords or canals, or statues, or songs. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work one finishes nothing. The prize will not be sent to you. You have to win it. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
My ambition is to construct a painting so that the whole of its surface is alive, however I look at it. Each mark, and the interval between each mark must give something back on its own terms. (Andrew Forge)
Infinite striving to be the best is man's duty; it is its own reward. (Mahatma Gandhi)
Men are so constituted that everybody undertakes what he sees another successful in, whether he has aptitude for it or not. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)
Aim high, beyond your capacity. (Irwin Greenberg)
You are the person who has to decide. / Whether you'll do it or toss it aside; / You are the person who makes up your mind. / Whether you'll lead or will linger behind. / Whether you'll try for the goal that's afar. / Or just be contented to stay where you are. (Edgar A. Guest)
It takes a certain level of aspiration before one can take advantage of opportunities that are clearly offered. (Michael Harrington)
You can be anything you want to be, if only you believe with sufficient conviction and act in accordance with your faith; for whatever the mind can conceive and believe, the mind can achieve. (Napoleon Hill)
-in an art gallery as a young man...
I am going to paint - Something like that, only a damned sight better. If a man wants to be an artist, he should never look at pictures. (Winslow Homer)
If you ask people what they've always wanted to do, most people haven't done it. That breaks my heart. (Angelina Jolie)
One can never consent to creep when one feels the impulse to soar. (Helen Keller)
You have to be driven. You have to be focused. You have to be aware. (Thomas Keller)
I always wonder what drives us as Artists. (Diana Krall)
My lifelong ambition has been to unite the utmost seriousness of question with the utmost lightness of form. (Milan Kundera)
Ambition is so powerful a passion in the human breast, that however high we reach we are never satisfied. (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)
Ambition and aesthetic are often courted by a jester named 'Group Acceptance.' (Juan Lugo)
Ambition is vital, but dangerous: it is a keen motive and a driving force, but over what edge can it drive the artist? (Eric Maisel)
I never knew a person who suffered from overwork. There are many, however, who suffered from too much ambition, and not enough action. (Dr. James Mantague)
The biggest human temptation is to settle for too little. (Thomas Merton)
I will be an artist or nothing! (Eugene O'Neill)
We need to steer clear of this poverty of ambition, where people want to drive fancy cars and wear nice clothes and live in nice apartments but don't want to work hard to accomplish these things. Everyone should try to realize their full potential. (Barack Obama)
My ambition is always to know, see and understand more of the visual world and to acknowledge the role of my inner world. (Betty Paris)
I aspire to be a minimalist, but I don't have the discipline. (Alda Pereira)
The student's ambition should be to become a painter's painter, rather than a popular painter. The approbation of fellow artists based on sympathy and understanding is manifestly better than the fickle or fast homage of the greater public. (Walter J. Phillips)
My mother said to me, "If you become a soldier you'll be a general; if you become a monk you'll end up as the Pope." Instead, I became a painter and wound up as Picasso. (Pablo Picasso)
As to what I would like to be, it is difficult to say. An artist of some kind. If nothing else I shall always study the Arts. (Jackson Pollock)
Ambition is the grand enemy of all peace. (John Cowper Powys)
Every man is free to rise as far as he's able or willing, but the degree to which he thinks determines the degree to which he'll rise. (Ayn Rand)
One inconvenience... may attend bold and arduous attempts: frequent failure may discourage. This evil, however, is not more pernicious than the slow proficiency which is the natural consequence of too easy tasks. (Sir Joshua Reynolds)
The universe is not required to be in perfect harmony with human ambition. (Carl Sagan)
Ambition should be made of sterner stuff. (William Shakespeare)
I tell you that as long as I can conceive something better than myself I cannot be easy unless I am striving to bring it to existence or clearing the way for it. (George Bernard Shaw)
Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon. (Percy Bysshe Shelley)
Man cannot aspire if he look down; if he rise, he must look up. (Samuel Smiles)
Yesterday I was a dog. Today I'm a dog. Tomorrow I'll probably still be a dog. Sigh! There's so little hope for advancement. (Snoopy)
I want to be everybody, and I want to be everything. One life is not enough. (Vladimir Sokoloff)
My only ambition was to create an honest picture that would interpret nature as she really is, as she ought to be seen. (Joaquin Sorolla)
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great. (Mark Twain)
Ambition is enthusiasm with a purpose. (Frank Tyger)
Ambition is a very important part of the painter's personality, and without it there is no stimulus to arouse your enthusiasm and compel you to go forward in the face of failure and rejection. (Robert Wade)
Our ambition should be to rule ourselves, the true kingdom for each one of us; and true progress is to know more, and be more, and to do more. (Oscar Wilde)
Bite off more than you can chew, then chew it. (Ella Williams)
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