Meanings
nounartistic temperament (plural artistic temperaments)
plural artistic temperaments
- euphemisticA disposition towards obsession and extremes of emotion, especially depression and anger.
The artistic temperament is a disease that afflicts amateurs. It is a disease which arises from men not having sufficient power of expression to utter and get rid of the element of art in their being.
1899, G. K. Chesterton, “On the Wit of Whistler”, in Heretics
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