Arise Quote by Gilbert K. Chesterton

Artistic temperament is the disease that afflicts amateurs.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

The artistic temperament is a disease that affects amateurs. Artists of a large and wholesome vitality get rid of their art easily, as they…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

That very concentration of vision and intensity of purpose which is the characteristic of the artistic temperament is in itself a mode of limitation.…

— Oscar Wilde

A temperament capable of receiving, through an imaginative medium, and under imaginative conditions, new and beautiful impressions, is the only temperament that can appreciate…

— Oscar Wilde

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

— Oscar Wilde

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

— Heather O'Neill

Art is nature as seen through a temperament.

— Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot

Temperament is something that is an integral part of the artist. Not temper, temperament. There is a vast difference.

— Bette Davis

Art is a corner of creation seen through a temperament.

— Emile Zola

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

— Nick Hornby

All forms of madness, bizarre habits, awkwardness in society, general clumsiness, are justified in the person who creates good art.

— Roman Payne

When did the word 'temperament' come into fashion with us? Perhaps it came in when we discovered that artists were human beings.

— Katharine Fullerton Gerould