Gerhard Richter Quotes

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.

Everyone was saying computers were going to be the future of art; everyone had to do something in this medium. And it was almost some sort of rebellion that I wanted to do these small, intimate drawings.

Nowadays shots are created in post-production, on computers. It's not really photography.

The technology keeps moving forward, which makes it easier for the artists to tell their stories and paint the pictures they want.

It was a huge challenge to learn digital painting well enough so that computers don't pop into mind when one sees one.

We can do things that we never could before. Stop-motion lets you build tiny little worlds, and computers make that world even more believable.

I don't like computers. I still like to do my drawings by hand.

Digital imaging has untied our hands with regards to technical limitations. We no longer have to be arbiters of technology; we get to participate in the interpretation of technology into creative content.

We're living in a tremendously new landscape, and the possibility of what can be created is immense. These tools of the moving image have a relatively short history in art, and what we can do with them is still largely unknown. We are still innovating and finding ways to tell stories.

I'm looking to evolve the concept of the new renaissance artist, taking the world by storm through the art of public display and demonstration, with technical savvy, using cell phones and computers.

Often the art in a video game is like glorified Thomas Kinkade, but some of it is genuinely enchanting and compelling.

I remember feeling that technology was like trying to draw with your foot. In a ski boot. It was the most indirect way to work imaginable, but the potential had us all excited. I started in stop motion.

It is so characteristic, that just when the mechanics of reproduction are so vastly improved, there are fewer and fewer people who know how the music should be played.

The audience for comics has shifted dramatically. And the boundaries between books and fine arts have blurred. Maybe it's the globalization of fine art through the Internet - it's easy for certain groups to coalesce around a certain kind of work or medium.

I feel more like a creative artist using photography because there's - the digital work is so interesting now. It's come to that. I have had many different stages of photography - there are many different ways to take photos. But I feel now I'm in that stage of my life where I use the camera, you know, in that way.

I think miniatures are still superior to a lot of computer graphics.

I honestly go back and forth in my head about using advanced and innovative technologies for creating my characters. There's something more 'real' and charming when the characters aren't perfect. It's the difference between anything that's built by a computer and machine versus the same thing being made by hand.

In a way, digital cameras were like very early personal computers such as the Commodore 64 - clunky and able to do only a few things.

You know, the only way I've found to make these pictures is with animators. You can't seem to do it with accountants and bookkeepers.

As technology advances at an alarming pace, the place of drawing remains as valid as ever in the creation of art and architecture.

I know of no person or group that is taking nearly adequate advantage of the graphical potentialities of the computer.

It is a curious fact that with 'Through the Looking-Glass' the faculty of making book illustrations departed from me... I have done nothing in that direction since.

A box of crayons and a big sheet of paper provides a more expressive medium for kids than computerized paint programs.

In an age of computer manipulation, surrealism has become banal, a shadow of its former self.

Space has not changed but technology has, in many cases, improved dramatically. A good example is digital technology where today's cell phones are far more powerful than the computers on the Apollo Command Module and Lunar Module that we used to navigate to the moon and operate all the spacecraft control systems.