Quotes About Recognition

Someday I'm gonna be famous. Do I have talent, well, no. These days you really don't need it.

If you see yourself reflected in art, you feel validated.

... alas! in the exercise of the arts, industry scarce bears the name of merit.

Art is all about becoming a name, a brand; it isn't based on talent or creativity.

Artists recognize other artists as soon as the pencil begins to move.

It seems likely that many of the young who don't wait for others to call them artists, but simply announce that they are, don't have the patience to make art.

I believe that all true art is classic, but the dictates of the mind rarely permit of its being recognized as such when it first appears.

Art is continually working to take the crust of familiarity off everyday objects.

For most people, art is only valuable if other people say it is; and artists are only worthwhile if they are either rich and famous, or dead.

But no artist, I now realize, can be satisfied with art alone. There is a natural craving for recognition which cannot be gain-said.

I do have an honorary professorship in Poetics from the Vienna Academy of Arts. So I have not gone completely unnoticed

This year, notoriety got confused with fame, and the devil is down hearted because there is nothing left for him to claim.

We use important words too frequently and they lose value; for instance, charm and great. An actor or musician often is proclaimedgreat when we really mean he is outstanding.

As an artist, I have been a risk-taker. And I've done a lot of different things. I don't make it easy for people. Identification is difficult. One doesn't recognize my art right away.

Knowing when you're not good at something and knowing when you are good at something is an art-form.

I was told I was talented when I applied to Falmouth School of Art and that I should consider skipping the course and proceeding directly to degree level.

Growing up, I found I was good at two things: Art and Math. To hear my parents say it, though, it was only, 'John is good at Math.

The recognition definitely helps and goes a long way for helping me to reaffirm my decision to purse art fulltime. Getting awards and nominations encourages me to keep trying even harder.

Cleveland is really good about recognizing its artists because of the Arts Council.

I'm liver than Jay, Davy, and Kathy and Regis, been on more MTV shows than Butthead and Beavis.

A movie star is not an artist, he is an art object.

Until quite recently dance in America was the ragged Cinderella of the arts . . .

I must say that the first person to realise that I was talented in art was my mother.

The sculptor, the painter the musician the dancer, or any artist, if he can first obtain celebrate in Paris, acquires very easily the esteem and eulogy of other countries.