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technique

is an action which is effective and traditional and is transmitted (and probably done orally).

I call technique an action which is effective and traditional (and you will see that in this it is no different from a magical, religious or symbolic action). It has to be effective and traditional. There is no technique and no transmission in the absence of tradition. This above all is what distinguishes man from the animals: the transmission of his techniques and very probably their oral transmission. (mauss 'techniques' 75) Marcel Mauss

is a hazard in the arts even as it is in living life.

In graphic arts and all the arts technique is a hazard even as it is in living life.

is what you fall back on when you run out of inspiration.

Technique is communication: the two words are synonymous in conductors.

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