Berkeley Breathed Quotes

The artistic process in digital art is very much the same as for making other kinds of paintings.

I'm not much of an art guy but I really do love Shelby and Sandy's work - they look like they're made on a computer but they're hand-painted.

People who draw tend to think they're craftsmen, so they really want to hang onto their pens and papers, but it's not terribly productive. To be honest with you, it's faster and easier to start with the computer.

I enjoy doing digital work. I enjoy sculpting digitally. I've had my digital sculptures on covers of the top digital magazines.

I'm impressed by the way some illustrators develop their images on computers, but it's too late for me to start, and I'm still in love with paper and paint and pencils.

Art is skill, that is the first meaning of the word.

Writing requires a great deal of skill, just like painting does. People don't want to learn those skills.

Computers don't create computer animation any more than a pencil creates pencil animation. What creates computer animation is the artist.

I like creating images.

I think most people agree there is a component of skill in art making; you have to learn grammar before you learn how to write.

The fact that biological, or 'natural' rules might help in the creation of a computer generated work of art is interesting, but even a wonderful work of art made in this fashion isn't the same as a person, with all his or her experiences and emotions involved, making art.

When we draw on the tablet, the drawing shows up on the computer screen. If we have chosen to tell the computer that the stylist is to behave like a piece of chalk, or a pen, or a wet brush, it will.

Most of the power of painting comes through the manipulation of space... but I don't understand that.

The computer is a tool, just like pencil or charcoal, allowing illustrators to manipulate images from their sketchbooks.

Painting is a very difficult thing. It absorbs the whole man, body and soul, thus have I passed blindly many things which belong to real and political life.

I think that an artist should be a skilled craftsman.

Drawing on a computer doesn't make any sense to me. It's not intuitive.

I think comics are faster to draw with a pen and then fill and tone by computer. But my illustrations are all done via computer. I even draw the lines on a tablet.

There's nothing more special than intellect and labour that makes painting work. There's no magic there; it's information, and it's work.

I know how to paint... In a way there is a boredom there because a lot of the magic is gone.

Painting from life is a completely different monster, which I like. But because I've been painting from photography for so long, I've learned my best moves from photography.

Painting demands an intelligent model.

You're only kidding yourself if you put creativity before craft.

I am really enjoying media arts and digital painting.

Actually I think CGI has the potential to equal or even surpass what the human hand can do.