Noun
artistic temperament (plural artistic temperaments)
(euphemistic) A disposition towards obsession and extremes of emotion, especially depression and anger.
On the whole, the enjoyment of leisure is something which decidedly costs less than the enjoyment of luxury. All it requires is an artistic temperament which is bent on seeking a perfectly useless afternoon spent in a perfectly useless manner. Lin Yutang
Artistic temperament sometimes seems a battleground, a dark angel of destruction and a bright angel of creativity wrestling. Madeleine L'Engle
Few artists can afford artistic temperament. Mason Cooley
You don't know old Charles as I know him. He's got into a queer set, and there's no knowing what mischief he's up to. He's perfectly capable of starting a revolution in Armenia or somewhere merely to see how it feels like to be a revolutionary. That's the damned thing about the artistic temperament. John Buchan
Artistic temperament is the disease that afflicts amateurs. G. K. Chesterton