Angel Quote by Madeleine L'Engle

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

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

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

Artistic temperament is the disease that afflicts amateurs.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

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

— Oscar Wilde

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

— Hans Hofmann

Any great artist is wrestling with their sadness and loneliness, their fears, anxieties and securities, and they're transfiguring those into complicated forms of expression…

— Cornel West

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

Art is a corner of creation seen through a temperament.

— Emile Zola

There is nothing fiercer than a failed artist. The energy remains, but, having no outlet, it implodes in a great black fart of rage…

— Erica Jong

Art is nature as seen through a temperament.

— Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot

The personality is a work of art.

— Diana Vreeland