There is virtue in virtuosity, especially today, when it protects us from the tedious spectacle of ineptitude. — Robert Hughes Copy Share Image
“Bend the rules only if you have learned them; break the rules only if you have mastered them.” — Matshona Dhliwayo Copy Share Image
“People are not taught to be really virtuous, but to behave properly.” — Kakuzō Okakura Copy Share Image
Rap is only one end of a whole spectrum of verbal play and virtuosity. Rap is geared for aural pleasure. — Rita Dove Copy Share Image
As far as technique and virtuosity are concerned, I think I am better than Bilozerchev. — Li Ning Copy Share Image
“With graceful deviations in which caprice is blended with virtuosity” — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
I think that virtuosity is the first sign of morality in a musician. It means you're serious enough to practice. — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image
Indeed, some kitsch seems to be flawed by its very perfection, its technical virtuosity and its precise execution, its explicit knowledge of… — Robert C. Solomon Copy Share Image
We weren't straight-A students. We didn't start playing until we were teenagers, and we started playing rock and roll and punk rock… — Ketch Secor Copy Share Image
My goal is to make fine art, and fine art comes from the soul. If you have virtuosity and facility, you can… — Richard MacDonald Copy Share Image
Punk rock has never really had much patience with musical virtuosity. Actually, it'd be more accurate to say that for most of… — James Surowiecki Copy Share Image
In art as in lovemaking, heartfelt ineptitude has its appeal and so does heartless skill, but what you want is passionate virtuosity. — John Barth Copy Share Image
Any complex activity, if it is to be carried on with any degree of virtuosity, calls for appropriate gifts of intellect and… — Carl von Clausewitz Copy Share Image
“The myth of talent persists—not that people don't have talent but that talent is the quintessential element in virtuosity. It's not; it's… — Asher Black Copy Share Image
I do feel pretty lucky that I'm not so great at playing and singing, it forces me to make sure I've really… — Jeffrey Lewis Copy Share Image
Academic environments are generally characterised by the presence of peole who claim to understand more than in fact they do. Linguistic Philosophy… — Ernest Gellner Copy Share Image
The irony of multitasking is that it's exhausting: when you're doing two or three things simultaneously, you use more energy than the… — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
Whether a listener absorbs this music or rebels against it is at least partly a matter of how the performers put it… — Allan Kozinn Copy Share Image
The zenith of virtuosity, a violinist like Jascha Heifetz, the supernatural in a pianist like Vladimir Horowitz, these are performers who were… — David Finckel Copy Share Image
And yet, we know how fatal the pursuit of liveliness may be: it may result in ... tiresome acrobatics. ... Flashy effects… — Katherine Anne Porter Copy Share Image
I think I can define my entire life, virtuosity and business philosophy down to the core fundamental that I absolutely hate being… — Amanda Palmer Copy Share Image
No to spectacle no to virtuosity no to transformations and magic and make believe no to glamour and transcendency of the star… — Yvonne Rainer Copy Share Image
The art of manipulating public opinion, which is a necessary art for the democratic politician, and, like other arts, is sometimespractised with… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Paul's One Way Out is a fresh, intelligently arranged, and satisfyingly complete telling of the lengthy (and unlikely) history of the group… — Ashley Kahn Copy Share Image
There are very few things of virtuosity or genius that you can actually witness. — Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi Copy Share Image
To will nothing, then, is ..looking ..for that infinite virtuosity that always enters into the game and always runs off — Maurice Blondel Copy Share Image
“My feeling about technique in art is that it has about the same value as technique in lovemaking. That is to say,… — John Barth Copy Share Image
Music is such a great communicator. It breaks down linguistic barriers, cultural barriers, it basically reaches out. That's when rock n' roll… — The Edge Copy Share Image
With the arrival of the new comes the need to overcome fascination with novelty in order to approach substance and sophistication -… — John Paul Caponigro Copy Share Image
I've always been obsessed with the grain of the human voice. It's the ultimate instrument, there's this whole level of virtuosity and… — Oneohtrix Point Never Copy Share Image
My feeling about technique in art is that it has about the same value as technique in lovemaking. Heartfelt ineptitude has its… — John Barth Copy Share Image
Where there is true art and genuine virtuosity the artist can paint an incomparable masterpiece without leaving even a trace of his… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
“Success actually requires more than virtuosity. It calls for perseverance, marketing, attention to detail, and more than a little luck.” — Bruce Turkel Copy Share Image
Intelligent, heartfelt stories that tell a whole new set of truths about growing up American. Julie Orringer writes with virtuosity and depth… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
I'm not sure I had ever written a fan letter before to a poet I had not met, but that's what I… — Thom Gunn Copy Share Image
As a mathematician, von Neumann was quick, brilliant, efficient, and enormously broad in scientific interests beyond mathematics itself. He knew his technical… — Stanislaw Ulam Copy Share Image
For this very reason I refuse all the tricks of the trade and professional virtuosity which could make me betray my career.… — Andre Kertesz Copy Share Image
In fact, on one occasion, a rather pedantic experimental psychologist was telling him about a long, complicated experiment he had done, incorporating… — Vilayanur S. Ramachandran Copy Share Image
“We begin by exploring how peak performance is related to the notion of peak experience, both at the individual and group level.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
