81 Quotes About Technique

All that you need in the way of technique for drawing is bound up in thetechnique of seeing - that is, of understanding, which after all is mainlydependent on feeling. If you attempt to see in the way prescribed by anymechanical system of drawing, old or new, you will lose the understanding ofthe fundamental impulse. Your drawing becomes a meaningless diagramand the time so spent is wasted.

Impressive technological development makes us capable of measuring almost everything, but measurement error problems still remain.

Technique has taken over the whole of civilization. Death, procreation, birth all submit to technical efficiency and systemization.

The tool enables man to conquer. But, man, dost thou not know there is no more victory which is thy victory? The victory of our days belongs to the tool.

You learn techniques to understand principles. When you understand the principles, you will create your own techniques.

Fear has a lot of flavors and textures. There’s a sharp, silver fear that runs like lightning through your arms and legs, galvanizes you into action, power, motion. There’s heavy, leaden fear that comes in ingots, piling up in your belly during the empty hours between midnight and morning, when everything is dark, every problem grows larger, and every wound and illness grows worse.

Accountants come in pairs these days. A middle-aged man in a dark suit and a sheen of perspiration, plus his younger accomplice, a woman who looks like her hobbies are arranging things in rows and making right angles.

Emphasis on technique is justified only so far as it will simplify and clarify the statement of the photographer's concept.

So I have the classic amateur's technique; I know some very tricky bits and I have large gaping holes.