attributory

Updated: May 12, 2025

To analyse the temperament of a great artist and then to declare that his art was but a part a little part of his temperament, is a foolish proceeding. Dandyism is ever the outcome of a carefully cultivated temperament, not part of the temperament itself. That maniere d'etre, entierement composee de nuances, was not more, as the writer seems to have supposed, than attributory to Mr.

Sir Max Beerbohm - The Works of Max Beerbohm