Virtuosity Quotes

20 quotes by 19 authors

As far as technique and virtuosity are concerned, I think I am better than Bilozerchev. — Li Ning
And yet, we know how fatal the pursuit of liveliness may be: it may result in ... tiresome acrobatics. ... Flashy effects distract the mind.… — Katherine Anne Porter
The irony of multitasking is that it's exhausting: when you're doing two or three things simultaneously, you use more energy than the sum of energy… — Twyla Tharp
I soon realized that the correct use of propaganda is a true art which has remained practically unknown to the bourgeois parties. Only the Christian-… — Adolf Hitler
I think that virtuosity is the first sign of morality in a musician. It means you're serious enough to practice. — Wynton Marsalis
Where there is true art and genuine virtuosity the artist can paint an incomparable masterpiece without leaving even a trace of his identity. — Orhan Pamuk
Any complex activity, if it is to be carried on with any degree of virtuosity, calls for appropriate gifts of intellect and temperament. If they… — Carl von Clausewitz
The ability to suffer is a small matter - weak women and even slaves can acheive virtuosity in that. — Friedrich Nietzsche
I think the problem with a lot of the fusion music is that its extremely predictable, its a rock rhythm and the solos all play… — Ken Burns
No to spectacle no to virtuosity no to transformations and magic and make believe no to glamour and transcendency of the star image no to… — Yvonne Rainer
Paul's One Way Out is a fresh, intelligently arranged, and satisfyingly complete telling of the lengthy (and unlikely) history of the group that almost singlehandedly… — Ashley Kahn
I'm not sure I had ever written a fan letter before to a poet I had not met, but that's what I did when I… — Thom Gunn
My goal is to make fine art, and fine art comes from the soul. If you have virtuosity and facility, you can take and create… — Richard MacDonald
For this very reason I refuse all the tricks of the trade and professional virtuosity which could make me betray my career.Â As soon as I… — Andre Kertesz
With the arrival of the new comes the need to overcome fascination with novelty in order to approach substance and sophistication - a sophistication born… — John Paul Caponigro
Rap is only one end of a whole spectrum of verbal play and virtuosity. Rap is geared for aural pleasure. — Rita Dove
Punk rock has never really had much patience with musical virtuosity. Actually, it'd be more accurate to say that for most of its history, punk… — James Surowiecki
In art as in lovemaking, heartfelt ineptitude has its appeal and so does heartless skill, but what you want is passionate virtuosity. — John Barth
President Obama is a gifted politician. He is gifted with rhetoric virtuosity. He is gifted with the ability to lie directly to camera without blinking.… — Ben Shapiro
My feeling about technique in art is that it has about the same value as technique in lovemaking. Heartfelt ineptitude has its appeal and so… — John Barth

Who Wrote These Virtuosity Quotes

19 authors contributed a total of 20 Virtuosity Quotes as follows: