A Quote by Edmund White

I think sincerity was my sole aesthetic and realism my experimental technique.

Edmund White

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Aesthetic Experimental Realism Sincerity Sole Technique Think

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Edmund White
American - Novelist
Born: January 13, 1940

Technique is the test of sincerity. If a thing isn't worth getting the technique to say, it is of inferior value.

Ezra Pound

All I want to do is realism and follow the tradition of realism. And explore what realism should be now be after the ubiquity of smartphones. I'm trying to answer the question. I don't think I'll ever have the words, but hopefully I'll have a few images.

Damian Loeb

I gravitate much more toward realism, realism in the work that I do, but magical realism got me hooked on film. I think it was my first time realizing that there was something besides popcorn movies.

Rachel Morrison

Sincerity is technique.

W. H. Auden

After two years in Washington, I often long for the realism and sincerity of Hollywood.

Fred Thompson

Technique is the test of sincerity.

Ezra Pound

I still feel that sincerity and realism are avant-garde, or can be, just as I did when I started out.

Edmund White

I live an artistic double life: one of classical realism and the other of aesthetic exploration.

Alton Tobey

Technique is really personality. That is the reason why the artist cannot teach it, why the pupil cannot learn it, and why the aesthetic critic can understand it. To the great poet, there is only one method of music - his own. To the great painter, there is only one manner of painting - that which he himself employs. The aesthetic critic, and the aesthetic critic alone, can appreciate all forms and all modes. It is to him that Art makes her appeal.

Oscar Wilde

Religion is the sole technique for the validating of values.

Allen Tate

People want to recommend themselves to God by their sincerity; they think, 'If we do all we can, if we are but sincere, Jesus Christ will have mercy on us.' But pray what is there in our sincerity to recommend us to God? ... therefore, if you depend on your sincerity for your salvation, your sincerity will damn you.

George Whitefield

At the beginning of all experimental work stands the choice of the appropriate technique of investigation

Walter Rudolf Hess

At the beginning of all experimental work stands the choice of the appropriate technique of investigation.

Walter Rudolf Hess

Sincerity that thinks it is the sole possessor of the truth is a deadlier sin than hypocrisy, which knows better.

Sydney J. Harris

I love to read and teach experimental fiction but yes, neither this work nor my first novel is really that experimental. It uses some experimental techniques but in the end, I would not say that it is experimental. I'm not sure why. I do a lot of writing on my own, and I have always just written this way.