#temperament

It is my fate and perhaps my temperament to sign agreements with fools. ↗

— E. M. Forster

#fate #fools #perhaps #sign #temperament

I was born out of due time in the sense that by temperament and talent I should have been more suited for the life of a small Bach, living in anonymity and composing regularly for an established service and for God. ↗

— Igor Stravinsky

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It is my view that the vegetarian manner of living, by its purely physical effect on the human temperament, would most beneficially influence the lot of mankind. ↗

— Albert Einstein

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

— Paul Cezanne

#intelligible #means #needed #painter #public

No one connected intimately with a writer has any appreciation of his temperament, except to think him overdoing everything. ↗

— Zane Grey

#appreciation #connected #everything #except #him

British girls are as temperamental as Americans. ↗

— Ivor Novello

#temperamental

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

— Hans Hofmann

#artist #every #expression #fundamentally #personality

If you are a novelist of a certain type of temperament, then what you really want to do is re-invent the world. God wasn't too bad a novelist, except he was a Realist. ↗

— John Barth

#certain #except #god #novelist #realist

Artistic temperament is the disease that afflicts amateurs. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

#artistic #disease #temperament

My co-workers expect me to be late and temperamental. ↗

— Eva Gabor

#expect #late #me #temperamental