Passionate Virtuosity. yes.

My feeling about technique in art is
that it has about the same value as
technique in love-making.

That is to say, on the one hand,
heartfelt ineptitude has its appeal
and, on the other hand,
so does heartless skill;

but what you want is passionate virtuosity.


-John Barth told an interviewer in 1968.
- From Charles Harris, "Reading John Barth"