rise and fall quotes

Whatever fortune has raised to a height, she has raised only to cast it down.

The Medici created and destroyed me.

These critics with the illusions they’ve created about artists – it’s like idol worship. They only like people when they’re on their way up… I cannot be on the way up again.

Look back over the past, with its changing empires that rose and fell, and you can foresee the future, too.