Ability Quote by Agatha Christie

“In many ways an artistic nature unfits a man for a practical existence.”

— Robert Louis Stevenson

“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…

— Charlotte Brontë

The artistic temperament is a disease that afflicts amateurs. It is a disease which arises from men no having sufficient power of expression to…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

“He was, I take it, the most perfect reasoning and observing machine that the world has seen, but as a lover he would have…

— Arthur Conan Doyle

“For as we would wish that a painter who is to draw a beautiful face, in which there is yet some imperfection, should neither…

— Plutarch

“No man engaged in a work he does not like can preserve many saving illusions about himself. The distaste, the absence of glamour, extend…

— Joseph Conrad

As long as the artist invents and is inspired, he remains in a constrained state of mind, at least for the purpose of communication.…

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

“He was an awkward mixture of strong moral impulse and restless aesthetic curiosity, and yet he would have made a most ineffective reformer and…

— Henry James

“They were admirable things for the observer - excellent for drawing the veil from men's motives and actions. But for the trained reasoner to…

— Arthur Conan Doyle

Artistic temperament is the disease that afflicts amateurs.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

“I should like to direct the attention of artists. A constant producer, a man who is a "mother" in the grand sense of the…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“It is sometimes said that the tragedy of an artist's life is that he cannot realize his ideal.”

— Oscar Wilde