Jamie Hyneman Quotes

Just as pure abstract art is not dogmatic, neither is it decorative.

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

My muse is the digital world.

Currently computer graphics are used a great deal, but it can be excessive.

I eagerly await new concepts and processes. I believe that the electronic image will be the next major advance. Such systems will have their own inherent and inescapable structural characteristics, and the artist and functional practitioner will again strive to comprehend and control them.

Technology is making design more exciting, with color, wallpaper, textures, fabrics that could never have been created without the technology.

We're in a time now where technology is such that we can create anything, and that's what's new about television and film these days.

I think we're in an age where artists really have an incredible range of materials at their command now. They can use almost anything from household items - Jackson Pollock used house paint - to, you know, advanced computer systems, to good old oil paint and acrylic paint.

I think the CG is an instrument to create reality. I don't think it's an instrument to create a heightened reality.

I had been working in colour for ten years or so and looked at digital and liked the possibilities it gave me.

I grew up with the idea of the cyborg and the robot, but at the same time I felt this intense disconnection between the things I was engaged with and inspired by in terms of fun and play. It seemed like paintings and drawings were so static.

I've always been a bit of a mix between art and technology. I used to paint a lot, but I'm not very good with my hands. It has always been a fusion between my computer gaming interests and being exposed to the rich data of society that we live in.

Digital technology allows us a much larger scope to tell stories that were pretty much the grounds of the literary media.

I apply paint directly from the tube and with my fingers.

My job as artistic director at the Brighton digital agency Lighthouse is all about trying to show that digital culture is about more than just tools and gadgets - it's about perceiving the societal transformations being brought about by technology.

It's been amazing to step out of a bottle of ink on to an iPad. There's no better time than right now to embrace this fabulous sandpit of technology. Because intuitively, at the touch of a finger, most of it is possible.

If you're using a computer as an artist and expressing your personal vision, I think your personal vision comes through.

The computer offers another kind of creativity. You cannot ignore the creativity that computer technology can bring. But you need to be able to move between those two different worlds.

I use the computer as a paintbrush. It enables me to do in hours what would have taken months.

Computer animation is one way to liberate people from their circumstantial gravity, and it is one way to give them mental freedom.

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.

I think that if Shakespeare had had access to CGI, he would have used it. Imagine Lear conjuring the storm and the lightning.

In earlier times there was one king and thousands of artists painting his palace. Now you’ve got thousands of artists painting for millions of people.

Are we blasphemous in saying that 2-D is largely a thing of the past, and computer-generated animation is the present and future? It's all about creating a better experience for the viewer - and that includes 3-D.

I don't paint butter dishes, doilies, or hummingbirds in my garden. It's more raw, I suppose. But it always creates a reaction.