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  • As far as technique and virtuosity are concerned, I think I am better than Bilozerchev. -- Li Ning
  • There is virtue in virtuosity, especially today, when it protects us from the tedious spectacle of ineptitude. -- Robert Hughes
  • I think that virtuosity is the first sign of morality in a musician. It means you're serious enough to practice. -- Wynton Marsalis
  • To will nothing, then, is ..looking ..for that infinite virtuosity that always enters into the game and always runs off -- Maurice Blondel
  • In art as in lovemaking, heartfelt ineptitude has its appeal and so does heartless skill, but what you want is passionate virtuosity. -- John Barth
  • Where there is true art and genuine virtuosity the artist can paint an incomparable masterpiece without leaving even a trace of his identity. -- Orhan Pamuk
  • Indeed, some kitsch seems to be flawed by its very perfection, its technical virtuosity and its precise execution, its explicit knowledge of the tradition -- Robert C. Solomon
  • My goal is to make fine art, and fine art comes from the soul. If you have virtuosity and facility, you can take and create something of significance. -- Richard MacDonald
  • Punk rock has never really had much patience with musical virtuosity. Actually, it'd be more accurate to say that for most of its history, punk has been actively hostile to virtuosity. --
  • I didn't want it to have any technical virtuosity; I wanted it to just be really clear how it was made. For my work in general, it's always really clear how it is made. -- Josh Smith
  • With the arrival of the new comes the need to overcome fascination with novelty in order to approach substance and sophistication - a sophistication born of subtlety and depth of perception, not complexity and perceived virtuosity. -- John Paul Caponigro
  • The zenith of virtuosity, a violinist like Jascha Heifetz, the supernatural in a pianist like Vladimir Horowitz, these are performers who were so idiosyncratic and personal that to imitate them would be like filling somebody else's bottle with your wine. -- David Finckel
  • As a mathematician, von Neumann was quick, brilliant, efficient, and enormously broad in scientific interests beyond mathematics itself. He knew his technical abilities; his virtuosity in following complicated reasoning and his insights were supreme; yet he lacked absolute self confidence. -- Stanislaw Ulam
  • We weren't straight-A students. We didn't start playing until we were teenagers, and we started playing rock and roll and punk rock - power chords - before we ever thought we would play folk music. So virtuosity was just never in my reach. -- Ketch Secor
  • I soon realized that the correct use of propaganda is a true art which has remained practically unknown to the bourgeois parties. Only the Christian- Social movement, especially in Lueger's time achieved a certain virtuosity on this instrument, to which it owed many of its success. -- Adolf Hitler
  • Intelligent, heartfelt stories that tell a whole new set of truths about growing up American. Julie Orringer writes with virtuosity and depth about the fears, cruelties, and humiliations of childhood, but then does that rarest, and more difficult, thing: writes equally beautifully about the moments of victory and transcendence. -- George Saunders
  • The irony of multitasking is that it's exhausting: when you're doing two or three things simultaneously, you use more energy than the sum of energy required to do each task independently. You're also cheating yourself because your're not doing anything excellently. You're compromising your virtuosity. In the words of T. S. Elliot, you're 'distracted from distractions by distractions'. -- Twyla Tharp
  • Classical virtuosity is more than technique, line, proportion, and balance. It is as if the performer and spectator come together to hold in their hands a bird with a broken wing. The creature can be felt to stir, to struggle for freedom. Its life responds to human warmth; its wing might brush your check as it flies away. -- Gelsey Kirkland
  • Whether a listener absorbs this music or rebels against it is at least partly a matter of how the performers put it across. It would be hard to imagine an ensemble playing it with greater virtuosity than the JACK Quartet, which seemed not merely earnest but also completely comfortable with, and passionate about, the strange sound worlds at hand. -- Allan Kozinn
  • No to spectacle no to virtuosity no to transformations and magic and make believe no to glamour and transcendency of the star image no to the heroic no to the anti-heroic no to trash imagery no to involvement of performer or spectator no to style no to camp no to seduction of spectator by the wiles of the performer no to eccentricity no to moving or being moved. -- Yvonne Rainer
  • For this very reason I refuse all the tricks of the trade and professional virtuosity which could make me betray my career. As soon as I find a subject which interests me, I leave it to the lens to record it truthfully. Look at the reporters and at the amateur photographer! They both have only one goal; to record a memory or a document. And that is pure photography. -- Andre Kertesz
  • With graceful deviations in which caprice is blended with virtuosity -- Marcel Proust
  • Elizabeth was not playing for the sake of exhibiting her virtuosity: she played for joy. -- Mary Street
  • The ability to suffer is a small matter - weak women and even slaves can acheive virtuosity in that. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Rap is only one end of a whole spectrum of verbal play and virtuosity. Rap is geared for aural pleasure. -- Rita Dove
  • I love the virtuosity and imaginative chutzpah of 'Da Vinci's Demons,' and not just because my boyfriend is in it! -- Hattie Morahan
  • In art as in lovemaking, heartfelt ineptitude has its appeal and so does heartless skill, but what you want is passionate virtuosity." -- John Barth
  • Heaven is no permanent abode of morons even though they may gain entry by sheer virtuosity of their deeds."Ashoka Prasad(Hegelian Lecture) -- Ashoka Jahnavi Prasad
  • Where there is a true art and genuine virtuosity the artist can paint an incomparable masterpiece without leaving even a trace of his identity. -- Orhan Pamuk
  • Music is such a great communicator. It breaks down linguistic barriers, cultural barriers, it basically reaches out. That's when rock n' roll succeeds, and that's what virtuosity is all about. -- The Edge
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