Quotes About Unaffectedness

After all, this is one of the most difficult tests for the true artist: he must always remain innocently unaware of his own virtues if he does not wish to rob them of their spontaneity and their unaffectedness.

With no perceptible trace of the vainglorious about him, rather with the offhand unaffectedness of natural regality, he seemed to accept the spontaneous homage of his shipmates.