Without passion there is no art, only technique.

 

Without passion there is no art, only technique.
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Chapter 15 (p. 192)

 

Mary Robinette Kowal

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My technique is laughable at times. I have developed a style of my own, I suppose, which creeps around [...] I don't have to have too much technique for it. I've developed the parts of my technique that are useful to me. I'll never be a very fast guitar player. I don't really know what to say about my style. There's always a melodic intent in there.

 

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A principal characteristic of technique … is its refusal to tolerate moral judgments. It is absolutely independent of them and eliminates them from its domain. Technique never observes the distinction between moral and immoral use. It tends on the contrary, to create a completely independent technical morality.
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64: Often it is means that justify ends: Goals advance technique and technique survives even when goal structures crumble.

 

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