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  • 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.

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

    Love   Funny   Life  
    "The Illustrated London News" Magazine, July 16, 1910.
  • 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.

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

  • 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 (2007). “The Collected Works of Oscar Wilde”, p.947, Wordsworth Editions
  • Every art expression is rooted fundamentally in the personality and temperament of the artist.

    Hans Hofmann (1980). “Hans Hofmann, 1880-1966: A Special Exhibition of Major Paintings to Mark the Centennial of the Artist's Birth : December 13-January 13, 1981, André Emmerich Gallery, New York”
  • I have an artistic temperament, which is a really tragic thing.

  • 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.

    Art   Men   Expression  
    1905 Heretics, ch.17.
  • Few artists can afford artistic temperament.

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

  • 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.

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

    1982 A Severed Wasp.
  • 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.

    Art   Pain   Pressure  
    Gilbert K. Chesterton (1909). “Heretics”
  • True dandyism is the result of an artistic temperament working upon a fine body within the wide limits of fashion.

    Fashion   Body   Limits  
    Max Beerbohm (2015). “The Prince of Minor Writers: The Selected Essays of Max Beerbohm”, p.129, New York Review of Books
  • A good cook is not necessarily a good woman with an even temper. Some allowance should be made for artistic temperament.

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

    'Toys of Peace and Other Papers' (1919) 'Hyacinth'
  • 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.

    Love   Color   Green  
    Oscar Wilde (1997). “Collected Works of Oscar Wilde: The Plays, the Poems, the Stories and the Essays Including De Profundis”, p.950, Wordsworth Editions
  • Solvency is entirely a matter of temperament and not of income.

    Logan Pearsall Smith (1931). “Afterthoughts”
  • The more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic than to love others.

    Love   Life   Romantic  
    "Mary Engelbreit's Words To Live By". Book by Mary Engelbreit, 1999.
  • When a father, absent during the day, returns home at six, his children receive only his temperament, not his teaching.

    Robert Bly (2015). “Iron John: A Book about Men”, p.59, Da Capo Press
  • 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.

    Art   Attitude   School  
  • Artistic temperament is the disease that afflicts amateurs.

  • 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.

    Morning   Believe   Ideas  
  • 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.

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

    Heretics (1905) ch. 3
  • A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament.

    Art   Work   Unique  
    Oscar Wilde (1969). “The Artist as Critic: Critical Writings of Oscar Wilde”, p.270, University of Chicago Press
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