Quotes About Recognition

This funding from the National Endowment for the Arts has been like the Good Housekeeping seal of approval.

You see what you know!

Black art has always existed. It just hasn't been looked for in the right places.

I'm making some of the greatest art being made now. It'll take the art world ten years to get around to it.

A creator needs only one enthusiast to justify him.

Once you decide that it is the art that is important and not how popular and well received you are, you no longer have an albatross

Broad paths are open to every endeavour, and a sympathetic recognition is assured to every one who consecrates his art to the divine services of a conviction of a consciousness.

The value of art is its ability to look into the "world of oblivion" and to find things that are generally unrecognized, forgotten, invisible and impossible to tell.

Everywhere in the modern world there is neglect, the need to be recognized, which is not satisfied. Art is a way of recognizing oneself, which is why it will always be modern.

It's hard to separate art from artists so transgender musicians will never be mainstream until transpeople are looked at as notable as maybe redheads.

When I met Steve Kaufman, I thought he was Gene Simmons, but what an artist talent he is. He will be an art force in the art world to deal with.

I assumed from the outset that photography was already art, and that I and other people working in photography were artists. I understand now that this was a minority point of view.

I am an artisan. I only became an artist when people watch what I do. That is when it becomes art.

I murmured to Picasso that I liked his portrait of Gertrude Stein. Yes, he said, everybody said that she does not look like it, but that does not make any difference, she will, he said.

If people knew how hard I worked at my art, they would not consider me a genius.

Whoever you are, if you know what you're doing, you don't want other people to overtake the merit of your art.

I don't see many artists who are not trying to bring their work to the public - -to the contrary I see artists nearly desperate to get attention for their art and, failing that, often for themselves.

It is of the highest importance in the art of detection to be able to recognise out of a number of facts which are incidental and which are vital.

You know it's ART, when the check clears.

I started thinking what could happen with my art and I realized that the biggest thing that could is that it winds up in a museum. It's like finding a rare animal and putting it in the zoo.

Religion is simply art bastardized out of all recognition.

In my brain all I think about is fame.

If thy words are wise, they will not seem so to the foolish: if they are deep the shallow will not appreciate them. Think not highly of thyself, then, when thou art praised by many.

The motivation of all artists is 'Look at me, Mum'.