“I don't think there is room for 'artistic temperament.' Professional artists understand art is a business. If businesses ran their companies like many artists do their careers, they would not stay open a year.” IfsThinkingYearsArtArtistRoomsBusinessCompanyCareersArt IsArtisticRanTemperamentArtistic Temperament Author:Jack White
“The artist at her best - wild, passionate, rebellious, and human - is often too large and truthful a creature for society's taste. The artist at her most outlandish - profane, eccentric, even a little mad - is at least as disquieting a figure.” HumansLittlesArtistFiguresTasteCreaturesMadPassionateTruthfulTemperamentRebelliousEccentricProfaneOutlandish Author:Eric Maisel
“When did the word 'temperament' come into fashion with us? Perhaps it came in when we discovered that artists were human beings.” HumansArtistHuman BeingsFashionTemperament Book:Modes and Morals Source: Modes and Morals
“Temperament is something that is an integral part of the artist. Not temper, temperament. There is a vast difference.” ArtistActorsDifferencesTemperTemperament Book:The lonely life: an autobiography Source: The lonely life: an autobiography
“The great conductor is always a despot by temperament and intractable in his ways. ... The artist is obliged to keep his laughter and tears to himself. If they want to emerge, in spite of himself, then he must hide them or unleash them in someone else.” IfsWayWantArtistMusicTearsLaughterSpiteTemperamentObligedConductorDespots Author:Nadia Boulanger