Quotes About Artistic Temperament

#1. 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

#2. 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

#3. Of an artistic temperament, I deny that I am; yet I must possess something of the artist's faculty of making the most of present pleasure.

Charlotte Bronte

#4. 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

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

Madeleine L'Engle

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

Nick Hornby

#7. Artistic temperament is the disease that afflicts amateurs.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

#8. Few artists can afford artistic temperament.

Mason Cooley

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

Max Beerbohm

#10. [Hayward] honestly mistook his sensuality for romantic emotion, his vacillation for artistic temperament, and his idleness for philosophical calm ... He was an idealist.

W. Somerset Maugham

#11. Artistic temperament is like a king with vigor and unlimited opportunity. You shake the structure to pieces by playing with it.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#12. 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

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

Marcel Boulestin

#14. The artistic temperament is too often only an alibi for lack of responsibility ...

Edmund Crispin

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

Heather O'Neill

#16. There is no sin coveting things are of no great use or profit, but would show out good and have some grandeur around them.

Lady Gregory

#17. Calligraphy may well be simply an artistic version of another form, that is the ideograms which make up the poem, but then not only does it reflect the character and temperament of the artist but ... also betrays his heart rate, his breathing.

Dai Sijie

#18. You fall in and out of love, but when you really love someone ... it's forever.

Sophie Kinsella

#19. My stories are character driven.

Terry McMillan

#20. A lot of being a poet consists of willed ignorance. If you woke up from your trance and realized the nature of the life-threatening and dignity-destroying precipice you were walking along, you would switch into actuarial sciences immediately.

Margaret Atwood

#21. The artistic disposition is little more than an extreme form of sulking.

Mark Simpson

#22. The latest technologies are often sexy, but beware of solutions that vendors dress up like trollops, unless you're looking for a one-night stand.

Stephen Few

#23. Words are not even within me. They're not in my vocabulary to really express the kind of feeling that I had.

Tanya Tucker

#24. Through my own struggles with depression, I discovered that knowledge, therapy, medication and education can provide the strength to get through it in one piece.

Susan Polis Schutz

#25. Do precedes done.
No precedes none.

Khang Kijarro Nguyen

#26. And despite the insignificance of the instant we have so far occupied in cosmic time, it is clear that what happens on and near Earth at the beginning of the second cosmic year will depend very much on the scientific wisdom and the distinctly human sensitivity of mankind.

Carl Sagan

#27. Mark Twain said, two people can keep a secret if one of them is dead.

Kaje Harper

#28. I'm facing Niagara Falls - the wind and the mist and the dark and the peregrine falcons - and I'm going to stay focused on the other side.

Nik Wallenda

#29. I looked up into his emerald eyes where I think I could spend forever and managed to breathe out, "Ditto.

Jenna Roads

#30. As so often happens, I discover that it would have been better to keep my mouth shut.

Prince Philip

#31. She wanted to get some personal profit out of things, and she rejected as useless all that did not contribute to the immediate desires of her heart, being of a temperament more sentimental than artistic, looking for emotions, not landscapes.

Gustave Flaubert