Quotes About Validation

I've been slagged off completely by the art world and I don't know whether fancy being slagged off by the literary world as well. It's just too much.

A fan club is a group of people who tell an actor hes not alone in the way he feels about himself.

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.

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

The fact that cartoons are reproduced doesn't mean anything to me as far as whether they are "real art" or not.

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

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

If you're an artist, you've got to prove it.

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.

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.

People criticized me for my photography. They said it's not art.

The artist is justified by his art.

You say your image is new, but it looks well tested.

Good talent needs a showcase to prove its worth.There are many cases across the world across arts where good and talented artists have disappeared bcz no one saw them.

A high self-esteem having artist works hard to be understood. A low self-esteem having artist works hard to be agreed with.

An artist simply cannot trust any public emblem of merit.

The celebrity syndrome. When people forget who they are and start to believe what other people say about them.

All you know is your parents telling you that you're not deserving, you're not worthy, and no one will ever want you. Believe me, tapes like that play so loud, you can't hear anything else. Even when it's clear otherwise.

As far as they're conserned, I've been kind of a poor second best all my life, or I don't qualify at all compared to my brother. It's rough being around them and feeling like you never measure up. Collin

but she felt like she had to earn him, and she hadn't. Not yet. And maybe never, she admitted to herself.

Sometimes it seems to me that the private life no longer suffices for many of us, that if we are not observed by others doing glamorous things, we might as well not exist.

Nothing makes you get down on yourself and worry that you're undesirable like rejection, so having someone desirable desire you is the ultimate antidote.

Most people would trade everything they know, everyone they know- they'd trade it all to know they've been seen, and acknowledged, that they might even be remembered. We all know the world is too big for us to be significant. So all we have is the hope of being seen, or heard, even for a moment.