Technique Quotes
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Did you know that in 1900 I had the bold idea of renewing German art?.. .First of all I needed to invent a technique of grasping everything while it was in motion, and it was Rembrandts drawings in the Kupferstichkabinett in Munich that showed me how. I practiced seizing things quickly in bold strokes, wherever I was, walking and standing still.. ..and in this way I learned how to depict movement itself, and I found new forms in the ecstasy and haste of this work.. ..and to these forms was added pure colour, as pure as the sun generates it.. ..in line with Goethe's theory of colours. It makes pictures much more colorful. Making wood-cuts, which I'd learnt as a fifteen-year-old from my father, helped me to stabler and simpler forms. And armed in this way I returned to Dresden.
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It is through strength of technique that the body stays in possession of music.
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Zach looked at Carey in consternation, obviously wondering if we were using the rare good cop/loony cop interrogation technique.
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Impression is not enough. Design, style, technique - these, too, are not enough. Art must reach further than impression or self-revelation .
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If you learn a recipe, you can cook the recipe. If you learn the technique, you can cook anything.
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I do what I want to do. I see where my enthusiasm is. Over the years, my techniques expanded. That's how the writing came out.
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You can admire people for sure, and they're worth admiring, but you need to find that special thing about yourself. It takes working hard, getting the technique, and learning to sing and all that stuff, but the master class is about bringing yourself to the role.
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My technique is don’t believe anything. If you believe in something, you are automatically precluded from believing its opposite.
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It is a temptation to exploit one's technique because an audience is easily reached this way, but they cannot be moved by technique alone and to move an audience is the role of dance as an art.
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If you find yourself with a weakness, attack it... don't develop a technique that avoids your weaknesses.
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I think the solo playing, the decision to start playing solo, came out of having discovered what lay behind the doors that that technique opened for me.
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There's an awful lot to be desired. I've gone to places where people say to me, "What's your technique?" Technique? What the hell technique is there to acting? We're acting because even with my voice I'm giving what I think is what I want to say.
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Talent is inborn, but technique is learned.
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I learn the techniques and then take what I need. I have the Essie Davis technique of acting. I'm an instinctive actress.
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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.
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Technique is the test of sincerity.
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With practice the craft will come almost of itself, in spite of you and all the more easitly if you think of something besides technique.
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The Alexander Technique helped a long-standing back problem and to get a good night's sleep after many years of tossing and turning.
