A Quote by Ezra Pound

Technique is the test of sincerity. — © Ezra Pound
Technique is the test of sincerity.
Technique is the test of sincerity. If a thing isn't worth getting the technique to say, it is of inferior value.
Sincerity is not a test of truth. We must not make this mistake: He must be right; he's so sincere. Because, it is possible to be sincerely wrong. We can only judge truth by truth and sincerity by sincerity.
Sincerity is technique.
I think sincerity was my sole aesthetic and realism my experimental technique.
The test of sincerity of one's prayer is the willingness to labor on its behalf.
I try to show good technique - boxing technique, wrestling technique, jiu jitsu technique.
The English love an insult. It's their only test of a man's sincerity.
KL Rahul has the technique for all forms of the game and for me more Test cricket than anything else. And if he performs so well in T20s and the 50-overs game, I think Test cricket is really where he's made for.
I am not commanding you, but I want to test the sincerity of your love by comparing it to the earnestness of others.
I like to have strong opinions with nothing to back them up with besides my primal sincerity. I like sincerity. I lack sincerity.
The test of a first-rate work, and a test of your sincerity in calling it a first-rate work, is that you finish it.
The way to test a man's sincerity is to serve him a bad cup of coffee. If he doesn't comment, he is not to be trusted.
When an artist begins to count strokes instead of regarding nature he is lost. This preoccupation with technique, at the expense of truth and sincerity, is the principal fault I find in much of the work of modern painters.
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.
It used to hurt me that people thought I didn't have the technique and the temperament to play Test cricket.
Never misunderstand seriousness for sincerity. Sincerity is very playful, never serious. It is true, authentic, but never serious. Sincerity does not have a long face, it is bubbling with joy, radiating with an inner joyousness.
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