“I'm making some of the greatest art being made now. It'll take the art world ten years to get around to it.” WorldYearsArtMadeTenArt IsRecognitionArt World Author:Jeff Koons
“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.” WorldWayNeedsArtModernArt IsOneselfSatisfiedRecognitionNeglectRecognizingModern World Book:Bourgeois Source: Bourgeois
“I've never felt that I was doing something for my people, except what I could to bring the accomplishments of the old ones to the attention of the world. I think the Northwest Coast style of art is an absolutely unique product, one of the crowning achievements of the whole human experience. I just don't want the whole thing swept under the carpet without someone paying attention to it.” PeopleThinkingWorldWantHumansArtWholeFeltAttentionStyleProductsAchievementUniqueArt IsRecognitionPay AttentionAccomplishmentCoastHuman ExperienceCarpet Author:Bill Reid
“Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience.” ArtArt IsPatternsRecognitionEnjoymentAestheticImposing Author:Alfred North Whitehead
“Somehow, some way, every person in the arts has to find an accommodation with disappointment and embarrassment. They are the pollen in the air we breathe. If you must go into the arts, go into them for yourself alone. On some basic level you must enjoy the act of doing it ... Otherwise, you are going to end up frustrated and unhappy. Recognition in the arts is luck and gravy.” IfsWayPersonsArtEndsEnjoyLevelsAirArt IsLuckDisappointmentBreatheUnhappyRecognitionFrustratedEmbarrassmentAccommodationsGravyPollen Author:Joan Rivers
“As a great democratic society, we have a special responsibility to the arts. For art is the great democrat, calling forth creative genius from every sector of society, disregarding race or religion or wealth or color. What freedom alone can bring is the liberation of the human mind and a spirit which finds its greatest flowering in the free society. I see of little more importance to the future of our country and our civilization than the full recognition of the place of the artist.” MindHumansLittlesArtCountrySpiritArtistWealthRaceResponsibilityMusicCreativeSpecialColorGeniusCallingCivilizationArt IsImportanceDemocraticDemocratOur CountryRecognitionLiberationHuman MindFree SocietyDemocratic SocietyFloweringCreative Genius Author:John F. Kennedy
“An image, a dance step, a song may function from time to time as entertainment, but the root and full practice of the arts lies in the recognition that art is power, an instrument of communion between the self and all that is important, all that is sacred.” MayArtImportantSelfLyingSongStepsPracticeArt IsRootsFunctionInstrumentsSacredEntertainmentRecognitionCommunionDance Steps Book:No More Secondhand Art Source: No More Secondhand Art
“Ivy [Wilkes] does exhibit a certain impatience at the beginning of the book [The Dissemblers]. She doesn't want to wait through years of hard work and insignificance to make her mark on the art world. Part of her growth is in realizing - even embracing - that the process of art is more important than the product or the recognition.” WorldWantYearsDoeArtImportantBookHardCertainWaitingProcessGrowthRealizingProductsHard WorkArt IsMarkRecognitionImpatienceExhibitsIvyArt WorldThrough The YearsInsignificance Author:Liza Campbell
“Design in art, is a recognition of the relation between various things, various elements in the creative flux. You can't invent a design. You recognize it, in the fourth dimension. That is, with your blood and your bones, as well as with your eyes.” WellsArtEyeCreativeBloodDesignElementsArt IsRelationVariousBonesRecognitionDimensionsFourthFlux Book:Study of Thomas Hardy and Other Essays Source: Study of Thomas Hardy and Other Essays
“Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern.” ArtArtistArt IsPatternsRecognitionEnjoymentAestheticAestheticsImposing Author:Alfred North Whitehead