Technique Quotes · Page 5

Art is technique: a means by which to materialize the invisible realm of the mind.

— Hiroshi Sugimoto

An old poet ought never to be caught with his technique showing.

— Stanley Kunitz

If you obey the technique to perfection, that technique will become invisible.

— Alan Chadwick

To be interested solely in technique would be a very superficial thing to me.

— Andrew Wyeth

I was using them as teachers for technique but I was never trying to be a folk.

— John Fahey

In order to arrive at a personal style, you have to have a technique to begin with.

— Philip Glass

Dancers aren't made of their technique, but their passion.

— Agnes de Mille

Leadership consists not in degrees of technique but in traits of character.

— Lewis H. Lapham

It economics is a method rather than a doctrine, an apparatus of the mind, a technique of thinking which helps its possessor…

— John Maynard Keynes

An art which isn't based on feeling isn't an art at all... feeling is the principle, the beginning and the end; craft,…

— Paul Cezanne

I wish I was better at art. I love some of the great artists of the 19th century and, compared to them,…

— Hayao Miyazaki

No matter what techniques I use, I still want to go after the eternal, meaningful aspects of painting.

— Dan Thompson

Fish farming, even with conventional techniques, changes fish within a few generations from an animal like a wild buffalo or a wildebeest…

— Charles Clover

Doubt that there could ever be...a more wicked MC. 'Cuz AIDS infested child molesters aren't sicker than me.

— Immortal Technique

Meditation is a technique to integrate one's personality, to be able to live and enjoy full life of all glories - worldly…

— Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

When you get a black belt, it’s not the number of techniques you know, but how well you know them.

— Caio Terra

Piano playing consists of common sense, heart and technical resources. All three should be equally developed. Without common sense you are a…

— Vladimir Horowitz

As a songwriter, you tend to develop your own style, your own technique, based around what it is you're trying to write…

— Ian Anderson

A considreable portion of my high school trigonometry course was devoted to the solution of oblique triangles... I have still not had…

— John G. Kemeny

People hope that if they scream loudly enough about "values" then others will mistake them for serious, sensitive souls who have higher…

— Marshall McLuhan

An artist must first of all respond to his subject, he must be filled with emotion toward that subject and then he…

— Robert Henri

The deepest problems of modern life derive from the claim of the individual to preserve the autonomy and individuality of his existence…

— Georg Simmel

Through the practice of concentration and various techniques, we silence the mind and we enter into a flow of perfect light. We…

— Frederick Lenz

It seems to me that the modern painter cannot express this age, the airplane, the atom bomb, the radio, in the old…

— Jackson Pollock

…We were born vampires." "I thought you became –" "— vampires by being bitten? Dear me, no. Oh, we can turn people…

— Terry Pratchett

In magic I believe I can control certain elements of my environment, I believe I can control certain aspects of my endocrine…

— Dolores Ashcroft-Nowicki

The reality is that terrorists can attack any time at any minute, 24 hours a day, using a variety of techniques, in…

— Donald Rumsfeld

If a large number of people who are convinced alien abductions are real are hypnotising even larger numbers of others who suspect…

— Bryan Appleyard

I like pacifists and people who have a heavy emotional identification with deathism and war would probably call me a pacifist, but…

— Robert Anton Wilson

What I resist is techniques. I find techniques very problematic. So when critics talk about my work in those terms, I find…

— David Adjaye

In crisis times, it's actually not more difficult to motivate your staff, because everyone gets much more focused on how they control…

— Reid Hoffman

The social psychologist of the future will have a number of classes of school children on whom they will try different methods…

— Bertrand Russell

Guitar players in the nineties seem to be reacting against the technique oriented eighties.

— Kirk Hammett

There can be no technique or formula for creativity.

— Asha Bhosle

The writer concerned more with technique than truth becomes a technician, not an artist.

— Edward Abbey

Technique plays a part - you have to know how to play.

— Jack White

Movies have now reached the same stage as sex - it's all technique and no feeling.

— Penelope Gilliatt

I'm always learning and getting better with my technique.

— Sage Northcutt

Anaesthesia, that's one technique: if it hurts, invent a different pain.

— Margaret Atwood

It's like when you want to make a house... the technique is very important.

— Cecilia Bartoli