Buffy Sainte-Marie Quotes
"If I'm interrupted, it's just a minor inconvenience, but not a disaster, because it's easy to get back where I was: that is, the paint has not changed consistency; the light has not moved."
- Buffy Sainte-Marie
(Related: Consistency, Disaster, Light)
"Instead of kids just hearing about beads and baskets and fringe, and about what 'was' and 'were,' we present Native American culture as a living contemporary culture."
- Buffy Sainte-Marie
(Related: American, Culture, Hearing, Kids, Living, Present)
"Another time factor is output: proofing and printing. That is, getting your work out of the computer and onto paper and having it satisfy you. It can be time consuming and expensive."
- Buffy Sainte-Marie
(Related: Time, Work, Computer, Printing)
"As a teenager I started painting and playing guitar."
- Buffy Sainte-Marie
(Related: Guitar, Painting)
"But in the old days, visual artists used to fall into two distinct categories: those of us who created images with cameras and those of us who applied stuff onto other stuff, with brushes or other tools."
- Buffy Sainte-Marie
(Related: Artists, Old, Tools)
"By looking at the questions the kids are asking, we learn the scope of what needs to be done."
- Buffy Sainte-Marie
(Related: Kids, Needs, Questions)
"Digital art software has empowered both the painterly side of photographers, and the photographer side of painters."
- Buffy Sainte-Marie
(Related: Art, Software)
"I work closely with the printer to get the final print the way I want it."
- Buffy Sainte-Marie
(Related: Work, Want)
"The key is in remaining just aloof enough from a painting so that you know when to stop."
- Buffy Sainte-Marie
(Related: Key, Painting)
"We also have the option of scanning in an image from outside the computer... a photo, or a sketch done with traditional tools; and we can then paint, manipulate, process, change, and further develop the image within the computer, watching our progress on the monitor."
- Buffy Sainte-Marie
(Related: Change, Progress, Computer, Tools)
"Digital imaging allows both groups to rise above the limitations of mess and clutter and mechanics, and apply our talents to creating images limited only by our imaginations."
- Buffy Sainte-Marie
(Related: Limitations)
"It was a black and white only computer at the time, but it kept me fascinated."
- Buffy Sainte-Marie
(Related: Time, Computer)
"The paintings are transferred from my computer to a disk, and I can hand it to the printer this way; or I can modem the painting to the printer over the phone lines from my house in Hawaii."
- Buffy Sainte-Marie
(Related: Computer, Painting)
"The time I save setting up and cleaning up probably balances out by the time I spend on output."
- Buffy Sainte-Marie
(Related: Time)
"The artistic process in digital art is very much the same as for making other kinds of paintings."
- Buffy Sainte-Marie
(Related: Art)
"That is, an artist who creates lots of work probably experiences prolific days and slower days."
- Buffy Sainte-Marie
(Related: Work, Artist)
"Sixteen million colors in your palette are hard for any artist, especially a beginner, to turn down."
- Buffy Sainte-Marie
(Related: Artist, Colors)
"Once an artist explores the vast variety of tools and features available on the great programs, we're hooked."
- Buffy Sainte-Marie
(Related: Artist, Tools, Variety)
"My first Macintosh was a 128k machine which I upgraded to 512k the minute it became possible."
- Buffy Sainte-Marie
(Related: First, Machine)