Art Quote by Nick Hornby

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

Few artists can afford artistic temperament.

— Mason Cooley

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

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…

— Jack White

Artistic temperament is the disease that afflicts amateurs.

— 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

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

— Heather O'Neill

Its also insane to me that people can expect an artist to not be prone to the same fluctuations in emotion and mood that…

— Gabe Saporta

I do not feel any artist can produce great art without putting great personality into it. It is always a piece of you that…

— Joe Murray

If they're not temperamental, I don't want them. It's in the nature of a great artist to be that way.

— Sol Hurok

Art is nature as seen through a temperament.

— Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot

When something is just bad, it's often because it is too mediocre in its ambition. The artist hasn't attempted to do anything really outlandish.

— Susan Sontag