Creative Recognition Quotes

Being the director - way fancier than 'just' being the writer. People call you 'talent.'

I don't feel like a celebrity. Poetry justifies celebrity. It's good to have respect for a poet.

I don't think people are terribly interested in young artists who were doing interesting thing, but I don't think people are terribly interested in young artists.

A young person, or someone who's writing in a different way - in some ways you could say, eventually someone will find them. Eventually someone will hear them. But it's good a lot of young people persevere. Because sometimes you have to send something out a thousand times before anyone recognizes your value.

When I got recognized as a writer, when I got the Emmy, I was more excited than the Emmys I had gotten as an actor.

A writer should have another lifetime to see if he's appreciated.

The day after the Oscars, I flew back to London to film a television play for Anglia. It was a big mistake because you never really get acknowledged for wanting to work in England, as I did.

I know this is a weird niche, but a lot of my female friends have these strange stories where there their dads have seen the small successes of their daughters and have decided that they are creative as well.

In those days I was new to covers; merely felt pleased that a story of mine had been honored. I later met Rogers who did some of my early covers and I was impressed with him.

Kailash Surendranath believed in me and my talent when I was just 19, and he gave me my first big commercial and thereafter worked with me on 25 jingles which really made people notice my work in the ad world.

Unlike the photography and prints, I never catalogued, kept track of or exhibited the sketches. I sold some occasionally, but never saw myself as a graphic artist. They became more important to me thanks to the exhibition, however, and I realized that these drawings were quite interesting after all.

It's very flattering to feel like you actually helped create a sub-genre.

If you wrote something, you deserve to get paid and recognized for your work. No one should take a bow with another man's hat.

I do value the respect I get from my contemporaries, but to have Oasis cover my song, to have Puff Daddy cover a song, to have Goldie come along to my gigs - that's where my ego is at. To have my fellow musicians like what I do, that's very cool.

As a filmmaker, you want nothing more than to have people say, 'I love your movie.'

I'm used to people not getting it. I'll make amazing music, but it's convincing people that it's amazing - that's the problem.

I'm overwhelmed by writers. Most people aren't impressed by writers, but if you can draw a cartoon or a picture, they think you're magic.

No fate holds more splendour for an artist, than the one which greets his effort with such enthousiasm!

I'm always flattered and honored when people cover my music or sing my songs, no matter where it is.

A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam of light which flashes across his mind from within, more than the lustre of the firmament of bards and sages. Yet he dismisses without notice his thought, because it is his. In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts: they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.

It's all in the art. You get no credit for living.

When people tell me I'm an artist, I say, 'What?' It's impossible for me to take the idea seriously.

Look, part of it is that those credits have a list of names of people who work so hard on the show. They do amazing visionary work on 'Dragon Prince'. And Netflix lets you skip those credits so easily. We wanted to give people a reason to enjoy the credits.

The best thing about being a cartoonist is to walk into a bar or someone's apartment and they don't know you, but they've taped one of your pieces up.

For a filmmaker, whether the film is liked, understood or appreciated counts as much as the moolah.