Nam June Paik Quotes

I use printers to make prints of the images that I am creating. And I try to have that surface kind of replicated in the painting.

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

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

There are art forms we don't know about yet that will be enabled by technology we haven't invented yet.

I used to paint a lot of oil and now I paint more mixed-media stuff.

Perhaps at some time in the future, when you ask a friend to come up and look at your etchings, you will plug in your collection of video art.

The screen is a magic medium.

I always liked to draw, and when I was a kid, the Internet wasn't big at all, so I would go to Internet cafes and search Google images for cartoon characters and save it to my USB drive.

Motion comics are a medium all their own. It is certainly not animation, in which a large number of artists do tens and even hundreds of thousands of drawings. The animation, or 'the reality,' is created in a computer, and the work of the original artist is the work. Nor is it a comic book. You can't turn the pages. You can't read the dialogue.

Painting is a lonely, mostly solitary act.

My main thing was painting; I was just going to do that.

I like marrying the concept of music with new media art forms.

I used to paint.

Some comics are made to be displayed digitally, and it doesn't degrade them.

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.

I'm actually very critical of digital cinema.

There's something really cool about taking oily coloured paste and pushing it around with these hairy sticks and making something that looks like you. That's the magic of painting.

Game development combines all this disparate art stuff I'd been doing into one single thing that I could use to say very specific stuff.

When Photoshop came around, I thought I'd died and went to heaven. When I hear artists say, 'Oh, the good old days' or 'I'm old school,' I just want to puke. There's no tool I won't use.

Yes, I'm very expressive with my painting.

I've always been involved in the visual aspect of my work, and moreover, it's very important in days where technology allows us to push the boundaries even more than when I started out.

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.

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.

Painting is the art of hollowing a surface.

A painter's got a canvas. The writer's got reams of empty paper. A musician has silence.