We want technique, I believe, because we fear the future. We have been to the future, operate here every day, and we know it to be messy. Unpredictable. Frightening, because it is out of our control. Technique, we figure, will help us in our predictions of the future. Knowing techniques will help us make what hasn’t yet been made easier to make. It will make the future neat for us, and predictable, and in our control, and so that future will, through the glory of technique, be less frightening, and so less intimidating. But it is the inherent frightening and intimidating nature of the creation of art that makes the discovery the reward of art, and the reward to the artist.
— “Against Technique”