My feeling about technique in art is that it has about the…

My feeling about technique in art is that it has about the same value as technique in lovemaking. Heartfelt ineptitude has its appeal and…

— John Barth

In art as in lovemaking, heartfelt ineptitude has its appeal and so does heartless skill, but what you want is passionate virtuosity.

— John Barth

Impression is not enough. Design, style, technique - these, too, are not enough. Art must reach further than impression or self-revelation .

— Ansel Adams

“psychoanalysis is more than a technique; it is an art, and highly specialized training in craftsmanship will”

— Otto F. Kernberg

“Zen Buddhist scholar Daisetz T. Suzuki said, "If one really wishes to be master of an art, technical knowledge of it is not enough.…

— Dov Seidman

The best painters, as they progress in reputation and towards perfection, are found to dispense more and more with the technique of the art,…

— Honore de Balzac

Any good photograph is a successful synthesis of technique and art.

— Andreas Feininger

Classical virtuosity is more than technique, line, proportion, and balance. It is as if the performer and spectator come together to hold in their…

— Gelsey Kirkland

There is virtue in virtuosity, especially today, when it protects us from the tedious spectacle of ineptitude.

— Robert Hughes

To will nothing, then, is ..looking ..for that infinite virtuosity that always enters into the game and always runs off

— Maurice Blondel

As far as technique and virtuosity are concerned, I think I am better than Bilozerchev.

— Li Ning

I think I can define my entire life, virtuosity and business philosophy down to the core fundamental that I absolutely hate being told what…

— Amanda Palmer

I do feel pretty lucky that I'm not so great at playing and singing, it forces me to make sure I've really got something…

— Jeffrey Lewis

“Concerto soloists need applause. Though virtue is said to be its own reward, no one ever said that about virtuosity.”

— Joseph Kerman

“Bend the rules only if you have learned them; break the rules only if you have mastered them.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo