Juan Felipe Herrera 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.

I'm born with a pencil in my hand. I did lots of sketching.

… printed newspapers on actual paper may be a luxury item. It’s sort of like … people still have horses, but it’s not their primary way of commuting to the office.

I use the computer as a tool. Like chance or the camera or the other tools I've used, it can open my eye to other ways of seeing or of making dances. It's not simply to do a trick.

I love my paper and ink, but I see the benefits of the iPad and Apple Pencil.

The iPad is the greatest thing as far as kids.

Artists' obsessions with technology are not new, but in the late aughts, the work tended to focus on the possibility of the medium, treating technology like a new tool rather than a sociopolitical framework.

I like newspapers. Maybe the iPad is very modern and everything, and I'm not against it, but I like the physical contact. And the physical contact of metal and glass is not as sensuous as paper.

If I were a 13-year-old and I wanted to create subversive art, I wouldn't go out and buy an electric guitar. I'd get myself a personal computer.

I use charcoal a lot. Partly because it has such a fantastic range but also because it is very easy to erase. For me, drawing is a lot to do with taking out, with returning to the white of the paper.

I have got an iPad, what a joy! Van Gogh would have loved it, and he could have written his letters on it as well.

Remember technology does not make good work. You can still write a poem on a brown paper bag, and haiku is just as profound as the pyramids.

The video camera dominates art. It's a bore, it makes everything look a bit the same. If you look at things with a pencil and paper in your hand, you are going to see far more.

I just wanted to paint and sketch and tell stories by drawing.

How you feel about the modern, multitouch tablet depends a lot on what you think Steve Jobs and company set out to do with the iPad back in 2010. If you believe he was out to make a bigger smartphone or to entirely replace the Mac and PC, you're wrong.

I have the Muji pen that has different colors. My daughter loves to play hangman, or we draw. It's important you can draw a rainbow at all times.

Acting, music, comedy are all just delivery systems to communicate ideas and stories.

I've had the iPad for a nice little minute, not into gadgets like that, though.

The 'silk' in silkpunk refers not to a source of power, but to an entirely different, expressive technology language.

I think there is a lot of technology that is finding its way into our storytelling - it's pretty unavoidable.

I was raised before the advent of DVD players in cars and iPads at the dinner table.

I always lose every single pencil I ever had. So I can draw with everything. With pencil, with pen.

I remember when I got my first (and only) iPad - excitement filled the air as I opened the box and stared at what was essentially a big iPhone but without the phone part. I knew I really wanted it, and at the same time, I knew I didn't need it.

I am delighted just to work on a good movie, no matter what the medium is.

An orchestra can add some class, a historical vibe, but I believe you can get the same emotion from pottery wheels.