Katharine Elizabeth Fullerton Gerould Quotes

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

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

By the time I was 9, I had the conviction that everybody in the world was an artist except plumbers or people who delivered groceries.

A lot of people have a misconception about artists, that they're invincible, you know, they're on a different plateau. But I'm just a human being.

Fate and temperament are the names of a concept.

I feel totally female. I didn't compete with men and I don't want to look like a man! I love being a lady and dressing up and masquerading and wearing all the fineries. I'm breaking down the idea that the artist has to look poor, with berets.

There's a point at which when I start to know a man well--this isn't true of women--I wonder whether there's something in him that's evil. Something that's pure and can't be touched. This quality of evil may be related to the quality of artistry, for an artist has the same characteristics.

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

All artists, they say, are a little mad. This madness is, to a certain extent, a self-created myth designed to keep the generality away from the phenomenally close-knit creative community. Yet, in the world of the artists, the consciously eccentric are always respectful and admiring if those who have the courage to be genuinely a little mad.

Temperament is the thermometer of character.

There are more defects in temperament than in the mind.

Being an artist is a totally godlike thing to do - and I have a god complex.

... an artist is a person first. He is an individual. If there is no person, there is no artist.

The artists who want to be writers, read the reviews; the artists who want to write, don't.

I'd like to walk that fine line between the authentic artist self and the manufactured artist self. I'd like to exist outside of a set of expectations or assumptions about what the Kehinde Wiley brand is. And I'd like to walk towards something that's a bit more unpredictable, human.

Modern conquerors can kill, but do not seem to be able to create. Artists know how to create but cannot really kill. Murderers are only very exceptionally found among artists.

How can people think that artists seek a name? A name, like a face, is something you have when you're not alone. There is no such thing as an artist: there is only the world, lit or unlit as the light allows.

The artists must see all things as if he were seeing them for the first time. All his life he must see as he did when he was a child.

An artist is only an ordinary man with a greater potentiality--same stuff, same make up, only more force. And the strong driving force usually finds his weak spot, and he goes cranked, or goes under.

I feel like I spent so much time trying to understand my identity and my identity as an artist. But when all is said and done, at this age, I feel the most like I felt when I was 11. And all those talents I had when I was 11 and 12 - I'm letting them sort of happen again. I can't speak for men, but for women - we go back to a kind of pre-adolescent state when we were superfree and supercool.

The great conductor is always a despot by temperament and intractable in his ways. ... The artist is obliged to keep his laughter and tears to himself. If they want to emerge, in spite of himself, then he must hide them or unleash them in someone else.

If I wasn't an actor, I think I'd have gone mad. You have to have extra voltage, some extra temperament to reach certain heights.

Maybe my work looks a little crazy, a little insane, but I don't really see myself as a crazy artist or a shaman artist.

Ultimately we've only got humanity to work with. It's only clay we've got.

My first sense of myself was as an artist, a painter. I would see a Van Gogh painting and just love it, the more emotional and passionate the more it attracted me.