Technique Quotes - Page 40

• The smudging makes the paintings a bit more complete. When they're not blurred, so many details seem wrong, and the whole thing is wrong too. Then smudging can help make the painting invincible, surreal, more enigmatic - that's how easy it is.

  Gerhard Richter

  Art, Details, Helping

  FaceBook post by Gerhard Richter from Jul 14, 2015

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• The techniques of opening conversation are universal. I knew long ago and rediscovered that the best way to attract attention, help, and conversation is to be lost. A man who seeing his mother starving to death on a path kicks her in the stomach to clear the way, will cheerfully devote several hours of his time giving wrong directions to a total stranger who claims to be lost.

  John Steinbeck

  Mother, Men, Long Ago

  John Steinbeck (1980). “Travels with Charley in Search of America”, p.11, Penguin

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• Can a society in which thought and technique are scientific persist for a long period, as, for example, ancient Egypt persisted, or does it necessarily contain within itself forces which must bring either decay or explosion?

  Bertrand Russell

  Science, Egypt, Long

  Bertrand Russell (2016). “The Impact of Science on Society”, p.87, Routledge

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• The habit of breaking up one's colour to make it brilliant dates from further back than Impressionism - Couture advocates it in a little book called 'Causeries d'Atelier' written about 1860 - it is part of the technique of Impressionism but used for quite a different reason.

  John Singer Sargent

  Book, Different, Littles

  "John Sargent". Book by K.C. Charteris, p. 1231927, 1927.

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• For example I don't work with William Hurt the same way that I will work with Viggo. They're different guys and they work in different ways. So a good sensitive director has his general style and technique and personality that he uses but you don't impose that on the actors.

  David Cronenberg

  Hurt, Personality, Guy

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• You know, comedy's hard. With drama, you have a responsibility to the emotional truth, but with comedy, you have emotional truth and you have technique on top of it.

  Julianne Moore

  Drama, Responsibility, Emotional

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• I never studied anything about film technique in school. Eventually, I realized that cinema and theater are not so different: from the gut to the heart to the head of a character is the same journey for both.

  Ralph Fiennes

  Heart, School, Character

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• Molecular gastronomy is not bad... but without sound, basic culinary technique, it is useless.

  Alton Brown

  Sound, Useless, Culinary

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• Enhanced interrogation is not to be considered lightly, but the use of enhanced interrogation techniques does not require moral people to abandon their beliefs. Rather, it is precisely during these difficult times that one's beliefs about life, justice and mercy become indispensible.

  Gary Bauer

  Interrogation Techniques, Justice, People

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• I like druggy downtown kids who spray paint walls and trains. I like their lack of training, their primitive technique. I think it hurts you, when you stay too long in school.

  Lou Reed

  Art, Hurt, Wall

  Lou Reed (2008). “Pass Thru Fire: The Collected Lyrics”, p.339, Da Capo Press

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• Just because people play songs with great technique doesn't mean the records are better.

  Kenny G

  Song, Mean, Play

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I've never really played golf. With the sax, I learned technique well enough so that it feels like part of my body, and I just express myself. That's where I want to get in golf.

  Kenny G

  Golf, Body, Want

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I always counsel aspiring novelists that passion is the most important quality for a writer to possess - technique can be taught, but that relentless desire to write has to come from within.

  Lisa Kleypas

  Writing, Passion, Important

  "Interview: Lisa Kleypas, author of 'Crystal Cove'". Interview with Pamela Clare, happyeverafter.usatoday.com. February 14, 2013.

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• There was a stage when Balanchine and I didn't talk. I was trying to develop my classical technique as opposed to the fast-track technique that he was pushing. We were very quiet with each other. But after two years he saw what I was doing and sent messages through other people that, yes, this is good.

  Gelsey Kirkland

  Years, Two, People

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• Phantom' was for me an interesting technique of telling the story. You have one voice that it is in the present telling what is happening, and then there's one voice from the past that's also driving the story forward. And you know that the two story lines will meet eventually.

  Jo Nesbo

  Past, Two, Voice

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• The slicing technique from Flatland still remains one of the most powerful tools for dealing with aggregates in higher dimensions.

  Thomas Banchoff

  Powerful, Tools, Ontology

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• There is no reason for me to show my collection in New York, because it's not about craft and technique there.

  Zac Posen

  New York, Crafts, Reason

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• My principal job is to make interesting and entertaining films, and I'm not proud of which format or which particular technique I use. I just wanted the film to look good.

  Guy Ritchie

  Jobs, Interesting, Looks

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• When I'm painting the picture, I'm really painting a picture. I may have a flat-footed technique, or something like that, but still, to me, the thrill, or the meat of the thing, is the actual painting. I don't get any thrill out of laying it out.

  Frank Stella

  Meat, Thrill, May

  Stephanie Rosenthal, Ad Reinhardt, Haus der Kunst München, Mark Rothko, Frank Stella (2006). “Black paintings”

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• If negative auric vibrations are not kept to a minimum by using psychic shielding techniques, and if they aren't cleansed from our subtle body through meditation, they will accumulate and eventually become very toxic.

  Frederick Lenz

  Psychics, Meditation, Toxic

  Frederick Lenz (1994). “Surfing the Himalayas: conversations and travels with Master Fwap”, Interglobal Seminars

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• Higher meditation is not taught through techniques or words. The real meditation experience is taught inwardly. You shift a person through different dimensional planes.

  Frederick Lenz

  Wisdom, Real, Buddhism

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• The strategy of winning is gaining personal power. There are no techniques to learn that will cause you to win. You need power, balance and wisdom to win and to learn from your loses.

  Frederick Lenz

  Health, Buddhism, Winning

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• There is a sense that animated movies are suddenly a genre. I just don't believe they are; it's a technique to tell a story.

  Gore Verbinski

  Believe, Stories, Genre

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• I am taking my production style more into the world of dub. I mean true dub production techniques but in house music.

  Subb-an

  Mean, House, Style

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• Everyone meditates in their own way. Some people sit and practice formal mediation techniques for many hours a day while others spontaneously meditate while watching a sunset, listening to music, or participating in athletics.

  Frederick Lenz

  Sunset, Buddhism, Practice

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