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Technique! The very word is like a shriek of outraged Art. It is the idiot name given to effort by those who are too weak, too weary, or too dull to play the game. The mighty have no theory of technique. |
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Technique is the test of sincerity. If a thing is not worth getting the technique to say, it is of inferior value.- Ezra Pound
The more technique you have, the less you have to worry about it. The more technique there is, the less there is.
Technique is the basis of every pursuit. If you are a sportsman or you are a singer or a swimmer, well that comes under sport but you have to develop a basic technique to know what you are doing at any given time.
Instead of art I have taught philosophy. Though technique for me is a big word, I never have taught how to paint. All my doing was to make people to see.
We can use techniques in modifying things, in controlling things, but the first impulse has to be something that you simply cannot make just out of technique, or else it becomes perfectly evident that it is nothing but technique that you are exercising.
