Technique Quotes - Page 2

• As the unity of the modern world becomes increasingly a technological rather than a social affair, the techniques of the arts provide the most valuable means of insight into the real direction of our own collective purposes.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Art, Real, Mean

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• Universal truth is not measured in mass appeal, This is the last time I kneel and pray to the sky, Cause almost everything that I was always ever told was a lie...

  Immortal Technique

  Lying, Sky, Lasts

  "Song: The Point Of No Return (Revolutionary, Vol. 2)". November 18, 2003.

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• Technique is the test of sincerity. If a thing isn't worth getting the technique to say, it is of inferior value.

  Ezra Pound

  Tests, Sincerity, Inferiors

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• Committing oneself to a technique causes stagnation.

  Kimon Nicolaides

  Causes, Stagnation, Oneself

  Kimon Nicolaïdes (1990). “The Natural Way to Draw: A Working Plan for Art Study”, p.100, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Young people are threatened... by the evil use of advertising techniques that stimulate the natural inclination to avoid hard work by promising the immediate satisfaction of every desire.

  Pope John Paul II

  Hard Work, People, Evil

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• You need better technique than I have to play jazz, but what you have to do is the same thing, isn't it?

  Charlie Watts

  Play, Needs, Jazz

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• Techniques vary, art stays the same; it is a transposition of nature at once forceful and sensitive.

  Claude Monet

  Art, Sensitive, Vary

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• I've always refused requests even from friends to employ a technique I know nothing about.

  Claude Monet

  Request, Knows

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• Tools and techniques ought to be an extension of consciousness, but they can just as easily be a protection from consciousness. Then the tools become defence mechanisms... against the unconscious.

  Rollo May

  Tools, Consciousness, Protection

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• When technique is obtrusive it becomes mere mannerism, a conscious striving for effect. It is only a means to an end - the manner of putting paint to paper. It hardly embraces the expressive side of painting.

  Walter J. Phillips

  Mean, Paper, Sides

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• There are many things one thinks about in a painting. Often, it's how to handle your chosen medium and how to best reveal the light in a three-dimensional form on a two-dimensional surface.

  Janice Tanton

  Thinking, Light, Two

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• When an artist begins to count strokes instead of regarding nature he is lost. This preoccupation with technique, at the expense of truth and sincerity, is the principal fault I find in much of the work of modern painters.

  Joaquin Sorolla

  Artist, Faults, Sincerity

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• The purpose of subject matter is to veil technique. The great artist uses the cloak of resemblance to hide the means.

  John French Sloan

  Mean, Artist, Purpose

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• Focusing totally on technique, you lose the essence and power of simplicity... The other extreme is just as bad; you see it in a lot of Modern works, where the concept is more important than the technique, resulting in very poor craftsmanship.

  George L. Carlson

  Essence, Simplicity, Important

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• I don't have technique because I never learnt any.

  Emma Thompson

  "Warts'n'all" by Kate Kellaway, www.theguardian.com. October 16, 2005.

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• Technique is really personality. That is the reason why the artist cannot teach it, why the pupil cannot learn it, and why the aesthetic critic can understand it. To the great poet, there is only one method of music - his own. To the great painter, there is only one manner of painting - that which he himself employs. The aesthetic critic, and the aesthetic critic alone, can appreciate all forms and all modes. It is to him that Art makes her appeal.

  Oscar Wilde

  Art, Pain, Appreciate

  Oscar Wilde (2015). “The critic as artist (low cost). Limited edition”, p.77, Oscar Wilde

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

  Henry Moore

  Important, Form, Should

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• There are people who can't stand the pain. What happens is they begin to develop some kind of technique to keep out of that hole. Once they do that, they're finished. They never go any further. They're done.

  Milton Resnick

  Pain, People, Done

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• Technique is communication: the two words are synonymous in conductors.

  Leonard Bernstein

  Communication, Two, Conductor

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• Negotiation is not a policy. It's a technique. It's something you use when it's to your advantage, and something that you don't use when it's not to your advantage.

  John Bolton

  Use, Negotiation, Advantage

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• I use a Bruce Lee technique: "The way of no way". He had the idea that he would learn everything, so that whoever he had to fight, he could improvise anything. The best way of starting a gig is just to not think of anything - to clear your mind, not in an empty Zen state, but more just to go on and see where you go.

  Eddie Izzard

  Fighting, Thinking, Ideas

  "'I'm just a bloke talking crap'". Interview with Chris Wiegand, www.theguardian.com. February 15, 2008.

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• There is more sensitivity in technique than in the rest of the picture.

  Georges Braque

  Sensitivity

  Essay by Dora Vallier in Cahiers d'Art (Paris), p. 16, 1954.

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• If we now seek the spiritual significance of the technique of Michelangelo we shall find that his sculpture expressed restless energy.

  Auguste Rodin

  Spiritual, Energy, Sculpture

  Auguste Rodin (2012). “Rodin on Art and Artists”, p.93, Courier Corporation

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• Everywhere there is craft and technique; everywhere there is artistry and form. Art itself, technique, is ponderous and clumsy, and because of its awkwardness it obstructs that inner element.

  Kazimir Malevich

  Art, Elements, Crafts

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• For an intelligent estimate of your technique go to another artist working in the same medium.

  Walter J. Phillips

  Artist, Intelligent, Mediums

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