Freedom Quote by Stephen Nachmanovitch

If you lack technique you lose the freedom to create.

— Paco de Lucia

Technique is something that you use if you need it. Otherwise, to hell with it.

— Sanford Meisner

One mustn't let technique be the consciously important thing. It should be at the service of expressing the form.

— Henry Moore

Technique alone is never enough. You have to have passion. Technique alone is just an embroidered potholder.

— Raymond Chandler

I'm always thinking 'technique, technique.'

— Mackenzie Dern

I would rather have ideas and some difficulties of technique than a perfect technique and no ideas.

— Mstislav Rostropovich

I don't like to think that I am a slave to technique, or so inept that I have to restrict myself to one method.

— Walter J. Phillips

Technique itself springs from play, because we can acquire technique only by the practice of practice, by persistently experimenting and playing with our tools…

— Stephen Nachmanovitch

“Contained within a given lesson or particular technique is the essence of all techniques. You imitate and study a particular form to grasp the…

— H.E. Davey

Remember, you are expressing the techniques and not doing the techniques.

— Bruce Lee

Technique-bodily control-must be mastered only because the body must not stand in the way of the soul's expression.

— La Meri

Technique is really personality. That is the reason why the artist cannot teach it, why the pupil cannot learn it, and why the aesthetic…

— Oscar Wilde