Artistic Temperament Quotes:

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.

- Andre Simon

topic: Strong, Food, Blessed, Artistic Temperament

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

- Robert Bly

topic: Children, Father, Teaching, Artistic Temperament

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

- Madeleine L'Engle

topic: Inspirational, Life, Creativity, Art And Creativity, Battleground

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

- Oscar Wilde

topic: Art, Work, Unique, Artistic Temperament

Few artists can afford artistic temperament.

- Mason Cooley

topic: Artist, Literature, Temperament, Artistic Temperament

Artistic temperament is the disease that afflicts amateurs.

- Gilbert K. Chesterton

topic: Writing, Literature, Disease, Artistic Temperament

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.

- Gilbert K. Chesterton

source: Gilbert K. Chesterton (1909). “Heretics”

topic: Art, Pain, Pressure, Artistic Temperament

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

- Marcel Boulestin

topic: Cooking, Good Woman, Artistic, Good Cook, Artistic Temperament

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.

- Oscar Wilde

topic: Love, Color, Green, Decadence, Artistic Temperament

Every art expression is rooted fundamentally in the personality and temperament of the artist.

- Hans Hofmann

topic: Art, Expression, Personality, Art Expression, Artistic Temperament

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

- Giacomo Puccini

topic: Inspiring, Inspiration, Men, Classical Composers, Quickening

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

- Logan Pearsall Smith

source: Logan Pearsall Smith (1931). “Afterthoughts”

topic: Income, Matter, Temperament, Artistic Temperament

Children with Hyacinth's temperament don't know better as they grow older; they merely know more.

- Hector Hugh Munro

topic: Children, Hyacinths, Grows, Artistic Temperament

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

- Gilbert K. Chesterton

source: "The Illustrated London News" Magazine, July 16, 1910.

topic: Love, Funny, Life, Love Your Neighbor, Love Your Neighbor As Yourself

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

- Gilbert K. Chesterton

topic: Inspirational, Earth, Persons, Solemn, Dullness

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

- Vincent Van Gogh

topic: Love, Life, Marriage, Loving Others, When A Man Loves A Woman

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.

- Elizabeth Gilbert

topic: Baby, Creativity, Thinking, Artistic Temperament

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.

- Jack White

topic: Art, Business, Thinking, Artistic Temperament

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.

- Oscar Wilde

source: Oscar Wilde (2007). “The Collected Works of Oscar Wilde”, p.947, Wordsworth Editions

topic: Vision, Purpose, Artistic, Artistic Temperament

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

- Nick Hornby

topic: Artistic, Ends, Temperament, Artistic Temperament

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.

- Howard Pyle

topic: Morning, Believe, Ideas, Artistic Temperament, Tiles

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.

- Jack White

topic: Art, Attitude, School, Professionalism, Art School

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.

- Loren D. Estleman

topic: Voice, Suffering, Literature, Artistic Temperament, Timber

I have an artistic temperament, which is a really tragic thing.

- Heather O'Neill

topic: Artistic, Tragic, Temperament, Artistic Temperament

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

- Max Beerbohm

source: Max Beerbohm (2015). “The Prince of Minor Writers: The Selected Essays of Max Beerbohm”, p.129, New York Review of Books

topic: Fashion, Body, Limits, Artistic Temperament, Dandyism