Technical Knowledge Quotes:

Technical knowledge has now become an integral aspect of the Iranian psyche.

- Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

topic: Aspect, Iranian, Technical Knowledge

Sane judgment abhors nothing so much as a picture perpetrated with no technical knowledge, although with plenty of care and diligence.

- Albrecht Durer

source: "Unterweysung der Messung (A Course on the Art of Measurement)". Book by Albrecht Durer, 1525.

topic: Care, Judgment, Diligence, Technical Knowledge

Technical knowledge is not enough. One must transcend techniques so that the art becomes an artless art, growing out of the unconscious.

- D.T. Suzuki

topic: Art, Technique, Growing, Judo, Technical Knowledge

In the Age of Aquarius, the depression and stress on mankind will tear up people who do not have the technical knowledge of self.

- Harbhajan Singh Yogi

topic: Inspirational, Stress, Self, Technical Knowledge

See how God writes history. No technical knowledge is required; only a calm day and a calm mind.

- John Muir

topic: Writing, Mind, Calm, Calm Mind, Technical Knowledge

The sum of all technical knowledge cannot make a master contract player.

- Ely Culbertson

topic: Player, Masters, Contracts, Technical Knowledge

Maybe that sounds a bit pretentious, but I think life experience is always more important than technical knowledge.

- Roger Deakins

topic: Thinking, Important, Sound, Technical Knowledge

Even in such technical lines as engineering, about 15% of one's financial success is due one's technical knowledge and about 85% is due to skill in human engineering, to personality and the ability to lead people.

- Dale Carnegie

topic: Wisdom, Knowledge, Technology, Technical Knowledge, Technical Skills

No amount of technical knowledge and competence is, of itself, sufficient to make a craftperson into an artist. That requires caring - passionate caring about ultimate things.

- Freeman Patterson

topic: Passion, Caring, Artist, Technical Knowledge

Different levels of photography require different levels of understanding and skill. A "press the button, let George do the rest" photographer needs little or no technical knowledge of photography. A zone system photographer takes more responsibility. He visualizes before he presses the button, and afterwards calibrates for predictable print values.

- Minor White

topic: Photography, Responsibility, Skills, Different Levels, Technical Knowledge

Design is a way of life, a point of view. It involves the whole complex of visual communications: talent, creative ability, manual skill, and technical knowledge. Aesthetics and economics, technology and psychology are intrinsically related to the process.

- Paul Rand

topic: Communication, Technology, Views, Technical Knowledge

"Though many painters and sculptors talk glibly of "going in for photography," you will find that very few of them can ever make a picture by photography; they lack the science, technical knowledge, and above all the practice. Most people think they can play tennis, shoot, write novels, and photograph as well as any other person - until they try."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

topic: Photography, Writing, Thinking, Sculptors, Technical Knowledge

The best work of artists in any age is the work of innocence liberated by technical knowledge. The laboratory experiments that led to the theory of pure color equipped the impressionists to paint nature as if it had only just been created.

- Nancy Hale

source: Nancy Hale (1975). “Mary Cassatt”, Doubleday Books

topic: Artist, Color, Age, Impressionists, Technical Knowledge

cut off from the intuitive knowledge of ontological reason, technical knowledge is directionless and ultimately meaningless. When it dominates, life is deprived of an experience of depth, and it tends toward despair.

- Mary Daly

topic: Knowledge, Cutting, Despair, Technical Knowledge

Capucci was the biggest schooling I had. It wasn't just about the technical knowledge, such as color and volume, but also about the secret rules, and the beautiful codes of respect between the atelier and the master.

- Giambattista Valli

topic: Beautiful, Color, Secret, Technical Knowledge

The Communist Party said that I must finish my studies because after the revolution in Germany people would be required with technical knowledge to take part in the building of the Communist Germany.

- Klaus Fuchs

topic: Party, People, Germany, Communist Party, Technical Knowledge

Two factors thus emerge as requisites of success in the field of creative photography. First, the subject must be photogenic. Second, its re-creation in a photograph must be based upon technical knowledge, guided and supported by artsitic inspiration.

- Andreas Feininger

source: Andreas Feininger (1953). “Feininger on Photography”

topic: Photography, Inspiration, Two, Photogenic, Technical Knowledge

While one is young is the time to investigate, to experiment with everything. The school should help its young people to discover their vocations and responsibilities, and not merely cram their minds with facts and technical knowledge; it should be the soil in which they can grow without fear, happily and integrally.

- Jiddu Krishnamurti

topic: Responsibility, School, People, Technical Knowledge

[Theodore Roosevelt] was a naturalist on the broadest grounds, uniting much technical knowledge with knowledge of the daily lives and habits of all forms of wild life. He probably knew tenfold more natural history than all the presidents who had preceded him, and, I think one is safe in saying, more human history also.

- John Burroughs

topic: Knowledge, Science, Thinking, Wild Life, Human History

And it has become a kind of a truism in the study of creativity that you can't be creating anything with less than 10 years of technical knowledge immersion in a particular field.

- Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

topic: Creativity, Years, Creating, Truism, Immersion

The Common Core State Standards Initiative is an important step forward in ensuring that the United States remains competitive in the global economy. Career technical education (CTE) shares the Initiative s goal that all students must be college and career ready. CTE programs that incorporate the Common Core Standards will ensure students have the academic and technical knowledge and skills to be successful in the 21st century workplace.

- Kimberlee Green

topic: Educational, Successful, College, Common Core, Technical Education