(243 quotes found)
“Technique is the basis of every pursuit. If you're a sportsman or you're a singer or a swimmer, well that comes under sport but you have to develop a basic technique to know what you're doing at any given time.”
Joan Sutherland
“It doesn't make much difference how the paint is put on as long as something has been said. Technique is just a means of arriving at a statement.”
Jackson Pollock
“Technique is noticed most markedly in the case of those who have not mastered it.”
Leon Trotsky
“What moves me about...what's called technique...is that it comes from some mysterious deep place. I mean it can have something to do with the paper and the developer and all that stuff, but it comes mostly from some very deep choices somebody has made that take a long time and keep haunting them.”
Diane Arbus
“The most perfect technique is that which is not noticed at all.”
Pablo Casals
“We are eager to use the occultation technique to probe for atmospheres around large Kuiper belt objects.”
Jim Elliot
“I want him working more on his technique and not just going out there and putting a show on for the fans that come and watch him train.”
Freddie Roach
“Baton technique is to a conductor what fingers are to a pianist.”
Igor Markevitch
“Basic self-defense classes teach you 200 different techniques for 200 different situations, and the martial arts teach intricate techniques that require practice, but will prove to be more effective.”
David Griffith
“The fact is that it takes more than ingredients and technique to cook a good meal. A good cook puts something of himself into the preparation -- he cooks with enjoyment, anticipation, spontaneity, and he is willing to experiment.”
Pearl Bailey
