Michael Pryor Quotes

Art used to be painting, sculpture, music, etc, but now, all technology has become art. Of course, this form of art is still very primitive, but it is slowly replacing reality.

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

What I love about new technology is that it really pushes the art. It really pushes it in a way that you can't imagine until you come up with the idea. It's idea-based. You can do anything.

A part of sexuality may go to research, and a much larger part must lead to aesthetic creation. The art of the future will, because of the very opportunities and materials it will have at its command, need an infinitely stronger formative impulse than it does now.

Advances in technology have opened up possibilities in the cultural realm throughout history. I'm intrigued by developments in technology - as an artist it gives me a new palette to explore.

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.

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.

We use technology in service of the art, as a storytelling tool - and if we want to do something that's never been done we have to invent the technology. 'ParaNorman' represents the realization of stop-motion's potential.

I view the art scene as an industry which is slowly developing. These days, technology has mad the world smaller. Meaning that information is a website away.

"The further art advances the closer it approaches science," said Leonardo da Vinci, painter, sculptor, architect, engineer, and inventor of the wheelbarrow, and other useful instruments from the speaking tube to a mechanically gyp-proof whore-house, "the further science advances the closer it approaches art."

All the new media are art forms which have the power of imposing, like poetry, their own assumptions.

I'm convinced that technology and art go together - and always have, for centuries.

I don't really know what the future of science is. Maybe we have come to the end of science; maybe science is a finite field. The inventions resulting from this finite field, however, are boundless.

I won't even try to predict the specifics, but I think the ebook - as a medium - could be a game-changer.

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

I'm interested in all kinds of pictures, however they are made, with cameras, with paint brushes, with computers, with anything.

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'm definitely a techno-optimist. I think we can do amazing things. But in my experience, if a thing has great potential, there is also a risk of great downsides, so to speak. Coming from a truly, really enthusiastic 'wow decade,' we are now moving into waters where we are somewhat more cautious.

I've got less respect for our politicians, for instance, who are not worried or apparently don't even consider the fact that Apple and a lot of the other good technology companies are going to create an automatic car. Think of the jobs that's going to cause to be gone.

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.

Art in the age of the digital image is completely different from experiencing art in physical form.

It wasn't like I was specifically wanting to write songs about technology. It's just what I lived, what I was experiencing growing up.

Photography was inspired by painting, cinema by theatre and photography, I don't believe that any new art form was ever created from scratch.

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

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.