Mannerism Quotes

• No artist has ethical sympathies. An ethical sympathy in an artist is an unpardonable mannerism of style.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Style
  • Artist
  • Sympathy

• Mannerism is always longing to have done, and has no true enjoyment in work. A genuine, really great talent, on the other hand, has its greatest happiness in execution.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Talent
  • Genuine
  • Enjoyment

• Mannerism is not character, and affectation is the avowed enemy of grace. Every dancer ought to regard his laborious art as a link in the chain of beauty, as a useful ornament for the stage, and this, in turn, as an important element in the spiritual development of nations.

  

  August Bournonville
  • Development
  • Dancer
  • Mannerism