Vanity, or to call it by a gentler name, the desire of admiration and applause, is, perhaps, the most universal principle of humanactions… Where that desire is wanting, we are apt to be indifferent, listless, indolent, and inert… I will… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
There's only one passion in most artists more violent than their desire for admiration: their fear of identifying the nature of such admiration as they do receive. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image