Best Artistic Temperament Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“The arbitrary influences affecting artists' vocabularies are many, and not necessarily all beneficial. The limiting trends of the day, the biting criticism, or the instruction insistent upon getting us to conform against our temperament can affect the work in profound ways, sometimes stalling us for decades.”

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Book:Art from Your Core: A Holistic Guide to Visual Voice

Source: Art from Your Core: A Holistic Guide to Visual Voice

“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.”

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Author:Jack White

“The more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic than to love others.”

“The artistic temperament is a disease that afflicts amateurs. It is a disease which arises from men no having sufficient power of expression to utter and get rid of the element of art in their being.”

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Author:Gilbert K. Chesterton

“True dandyism is the result of an artistic temperament working upon a fine body within the wide limits of fashion.”

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Book:The Prince of Minor Writers: The Selected Essays of Max Beerbohm

Source: The Prince of Minor Writers: The Selected Essays of Max Beerbohm

“That very concentration of vision and intensity of purpose which is the characteristic of the artistic temperament is in itself a mode of limitation. To those who are preoccupied with the beauty of form nothing else seems of much importance.”

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Book:The Collected Works of Oscar Wilde

Source: The Collected Works of Oscar Wilde

“Artistic temperament sometimes seems a battleground, a dark angel of destruction and a bright angel of creativity wrestling.”

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Author:Madeleine L'Engle

“A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament.”

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Book:The Artist as Critic: Critical Writings of Oscar Wilde

Source: The Artist as Critic: Critical Writings of Oscar Wilde

“He had that curious love of green, which in individuals is always the sign of a subtle artistic temperament, and in nations is said to denote a laxity, if not a decadence of morals.”

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Book:Collected Works of Oscar Wilde: The Plays, the Poems, the Stories and the Essays Including De Profundis

Source: Collected Works of Oscar Wilde: The Plays, the Poems, the Stories and the Essays Including De Profundis

“The artistic temperament is particularly unhelpful if it is just that, with no end product.”

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Author:Nick Hornby

“Inspiration is an awakening, a quickening of all man's faculties, and it is manifested in all high artistic achievements.”

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Author:Giacomo Puccini

“The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because they are generally the same people.”

“There is no such thing on earth as an uninteresting subject; the only thing that can exist is an uninterested person.”

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Author:Gilbert K. Chesterton

“Artistic temperament is the disease that afflicts amateurs.”

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Author:Gilbert K. Chesterton

“Cooks are in some ways very much like actors; they must be fit and strong, since acting and cooking are two of the most exacting professions. They must be blessed - or cursed, whichever way you care to look at it - with what is called the artistic temperament, which means that if they are to act or cook at all well, it cannot be for duds or dummies.”

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Author:Andre Simon

“Your attitude is more important than the events happening around you. Artists develop a syndrome taught in art schools. It is a malady titled, 'Artistic Temperament'... rudeness, excuses, slovenliness, laziness, clutter, addictions, non-commercial attitudes, un-professionalism... and a good reason for failure.”

“Few artists can afford artistic temperament.”

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Author:Mason Cooley

“When a father, absent during the day, returns home at six, his children receive only his temperament, not his teaching.”

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Book:Iron John: A Book about Men

Source: Iron John: A Book about Men

“A good cook is not necessarily a good woman with an even temper. Some allowance should be made for artistic temperament.”

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Author:Marcel Boulestin

“Solvency is entirely a matter of temperament and not of income.”

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Book:Afterthoughts

Source: Afterthoughts

“I was the baby of the family, but I was never babied, and that allowed me to take whatever artistic temperament I had and apply learned discipline. I was taught how to work. I think that's everything. Creativity and imagination alone are not going to get you there.”

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Author:Elizabeth Gilbert

“Young people, don't get the idea that you have an artistic temperament which must be humored. Don't believe you cannot do good work unless you feel in tile mood for it. That is all nonsense. I frequently have to force myself to make a start in the morning; but after a short while I find I can work. Only hard and regular work will bring success.”

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Author:Howard Pyle

“The artistic temperament is a disease that affects amateurs. Artists of a large and wholesome vitality get rid of their art easily, as they breathe easily or perspire easily. But in artists of less force, the thing becomes a pressure, and produces a definite pain, which is called the artistic temperament.”

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Book:Heretics

Source: Heretics

“If the detective should suffer overmuch from the artistic temperament, and his fellow lodger should dwell overlong upon the fairness of a wrist or the timber of a feminine voice, so much the better for us. Literature never produced a relationship more symbiotic nor a warmer and more timeless friendship.”

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Author:Loren D. Estleman

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