Top 1200 Artistic Temperament Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

Writing is not a matter of choice. Writers have to write. It is somehow in their temperament, in the blood, in tradition.

The temperament that produces a talent for little things is the opposite of that required for great ones.

I have a temperament that doesn't adapt well to politics. It's because I speak my mind so much.

Supreme Court says pornography is anything without artistic merit that causes sexual thoughts, that's their definition, essentially. No artistic merit, causes sexual thoughts. Hmm... Sounds like... every commercial on television, doesn't it? You know, when I see those two twins on that Doublemint commercial? I'm not thinking of gum. I am thinking of chewing, so maybe that's the connection they're trying to make.

[Reagan] was the best president in this era, as he had the perfect temperament for the job.

I think my strongest asset, maybe by far, is my temperament.

I have left out what I don't remember or don't know. Temperament, fear, shyness, obedience, kindness.

I have a happy temperament: a bit like 'Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm.'

Part of the scientific temperament is this tolerance for holding multiple hypotheses in mind at the same time.

One of the greatest hindrances in coming to Jesus is the excuse of temperament. We make our temperament and our natural affinities barriers to coming to Jesus. The first thing we realize when we come to Jesus is that He pays no attention whatever to our natural affinities. We have the notion that we can consecrate our gifts to God. You cannot consecrate what is not yours; there is only one thing you can consecrate to God, and that is your right to yourself (Romans 12:1). If you will give God your right to yourself, He will make a holy experiment out of you. God’s experiments always succeed

The environment was so strong, so dramatic. Tragedy is all over Calabria; it's in the air. All this corresponds to my temperament.

Your temperament is what you write with, but it's also how you deal with the world.

By my makeup and temperament I wasn't really prey to physical desires. Everything happened in my head.

The almost universal gift everyone can develop is the creation of a pleasant disposition, an even temperament.

A nominee [to Supreme Court] must possess the competence, character and temperament to serve on the bench.

Of all the art forms that my family dabbles in, writing suits my temperament the most.

I think what you see [in Salome the play backstage] is an artist having this fit of temperament.

Simply according artistic works the same protection as nonartistic works may not be sufficient to protect creativity. After all, the very essence of artistic expression is invention and artists necessarily draw on their own experience. But if the rules of liability are unclear, artists will not be able to know how much disguise is sufficient to protect their claims from the claims of those who may see themselves in the portrayals.

Good golfing temperament falls between taking it with a grin or shrug and throwing a fit.

An excessive amount of my time is taken with political involvement. It's unavoidable; that's my temperament.

The Art of Love: knowing how to combine the temperament of a vampire with the discretion of an anemone.

Harriet Tubman and Sojourner Truth were slaves by birth, freedom fighters by temperament.

I think it's fair to say that my temperament is steady - and on the buoyant side.

The conduct of men depends upon their temperament, not upon a bunch of musty maxims.

All creeds and opinions are nothing but the mere result of chance and temperament.

Hillary Clinton has a bad temperament. She's weak.

Happiness is always a by-product. It is probably a matter of temperament, and for anything I know it may be glandular.

My dad, his temperament is a little worse than mine, at times.

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

The man of conservative temperament believes that a known good is not lightly to be surrendered for an unknown better.

I have no quarrel with people who lack the skill or temperament to care for small children.

My temperament is my strongest thing according for the people that know me best.

Dorothy is th cool type of temperament who quite frequently thinks that two is a crowd.

What an artist does, is fail. Any reading of the literature, (I mean the literature of artistic creation), however summary, will persuade you instantly that the paradigmatic artistic experience is that of failure. The actualization fails to meet, equal, the intuition. There is something "out there" which cannot be brought "here". This is standard. I don't mean bad artists, I mean good artists. There is no such thing as a "successful artist" (except, of course, in worldly terms).

He who gets the better of an irascible temperament conquers his worst enemy.

Temperament, like liberty, is important despite how many crimes are committed in its name.

I am far from the first to conclude that Donald Trump lacks the temperament to be president.

It's just awfully good that someone with the temperament of Donald Trump is not in charge of the law of America.

Will and energy sometimes prove greater than either genius or talent or temperament.

With a painter's temperament, all that's needed are the means of expression sufficient to be intelligible to the wide public.

There's a phenomenology of being sick, one that depends on temperament, personal history, and the culture which we live in.

I think David Fincher should probably be an 18th Century Landscape painter because he has this temperament.

I can look at a photo and tell you about your child's temperament and personality. All that scans in seconds.

Is there any other slavery and chain like that of temperament?

Art is a corner of creation seen through a temperament.

I guess a certain amount of temperament is expected of Chess geniuses

The League of Independent Theater represents a coming together of actual artistic and theatrical forces that may yet undo the difficulty of our times in maintaining the highest artistic standards in a period of economic crisis. Who can save us from the downhill trend of our economy except the vigor of our arts? Theatre, music and education are our only hopes to lift our times beyond their despair and create a viable, prosperous culture.

Wrestling is different to me. As I talk to other wrestlers, wrestling seems a little different to me than it does to a lot of them. To me, it's about an artistic performance and about honing my artistic performance in pursuit of these minute moments of perfection. These little encapsulations. And none of them are ever perfect.

It used to hurt me that people thought I didn't have the technique and the temperament to play Test cricket.

Markets and exchanges are merely mechanisms which reflect the temperament of man

Astronomy is not the apex of science or of invention. But it is a test of the cast of temperament and mind that underlies a culture.

Happiness is an endowment and not an acquisition. It depends more upon temperament and disposition than environment.

By temperament and disposition and emotions, I'm a liberal; but in my beliefs about what's best for the country, I'm a centrist.

I`m honored to have the greatest temperament that anybody has, because we know how to win.

Marius was of the temperament that sinks into grief and remains there; Cosette was of the sort that plunges in and comes out again.

My on-court temperament is totally to just win and destroy.

The cut of a garment speaks of intellect and talent and the color of temperament and heart.

Whether we like it or not, men and women are not the same in nature, temperament, emotions and emotional responses.

A writer's temperament is continually making him do things he can never repair.

Temperament and tightness often go together. But if you're tight, you can't sing. So I have to have that tension in my body but not in my voice.