The Importance of Technique in Art

Art has been essential to our species as eating and cooking have been since before the beginning. You take any skill, art, cooking, anything, and you embed your own voice in it. Look at Van Gogh: He redefined this idea of the skill of the brush stroke instead of blending over like beautiful old master painting. In a way, you could define what Duchamp did as much more godly as belief in that Fourth Amendment.