“Bend the rules only if you have learned them; break the rules only if you have mastered them.” — Matshona Dhliwayo 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
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
As far as technique and virtuosity are concerned, I think I am better than Bilozerchev. — Li Ning 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
There is virtue in virtuosity, especially today, when it protects us from the tedious spectacle of ineptitude. — Robert Hughes Copy Share Image
Classical virtuosity is more than technique, line, proportion, and balance. It is as if the performer and spectator come together to hold… — Gelsey Kirkland 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 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
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
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 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
