The phrase "artistic distinction" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to a unique quality or characteristic in art that sets it apart from others.
Example: "The artist's work is celebrated for its artistic distinction, showcasing a style that is both innovative and deeply personal."
Alternatives: "creative uniqueness" or "aesthetic difference".
You join this particular group of poets who have such artistic distinction.
Models, photographs and drawings show how inventively they have used salvaged and recycled materials, like old tires or hay bales, to produce buildings of real artistic distinction.
In fact, it is hard to make any meaningful comparison of his work with any good photographer because his pictures for Burberry have zero artistic distinction.
On Monday, New York New Visions released a letter in which it described a broad sense among design professionals that the plans by the eight finalists lacked emotion, variety and artistic distinction.
Actually, though, there have been only about three or four such days in the eight-decade history of the Oscars — serendipitous moments when mass taste, artistic distinction and a majority of academy votes magically fell into alignment.
In a decision dated four days after the hearing, the board majority concluded that the church lacked the "architectural and artistic distinction" of a landmark, partly because the structure had received "substantial alterations" over the years, included the placing of stucco over the church's original clapboard exterior.
The artistic distinctions between them are covered fleetingly.
Mr. Mölich-Zebhauser made an important distinction between artistic freedom and artistic responsibility.
As the interface between subject matter and society, presentation space was adopted as a significant artistic medium, removing the distinction between artists and curators.
But the truer distinction is artistic: regal and uninhibited, Mr. Evans moves like few others of his generation.
He came to know virtually everyone of distinction in artistic and intellectual life -- novelists, poets, painters, philosophers, art critics.
