The point is to develop the childlike inclination for play and the childlike desire for recognition and to guide the child over to important fields for society. Such a school demands from the teacher that he be a kind of artist in his province.
I think all artists want that plaque, whether it's Gold or Platinum or multi-platinum. I think we all look forward to getting a plaque and hanging it on your wall and having something to show for the music that you've created.
I paid my dues. I have crawled to gigs. I have served people coffee. I worked hard selling all these records out the back of my car. Girl, I'm ready to sell one the real way now.
Artists want to be congratulated because they should be.
Most painters want recognition, especially by their peers.
I was neither good in sports nor at studies, but I always wanted to stand out and be noticed.
All I know is gold and platinum, and I want to be platinum.
I've won many awards and I want more. If you want to call it hunger then I'm hungry for awards.
Any writer who pretends to a disaffection for recognition, I think they're being duplicitous.
That's the motivation of an artist - to seek attention of some kind.
I feel like I have been putting out a consistent body of work, just waiting for that agent, that executive, that assistant to the bigwig to stumble across it.
Do I need my number retired throughout the course of the league to acknowledge what I've done? No.
It was the slave's continuing desire for recognition that was the motor which propelled history forward, not the idle complacency and unchanging self-identity of the master
