Mitchel Resnick Quotes

Writing is a recording that you can cut up and reassemble. Sound is something you can cut up and reassemble. Film, video - you know, the main tools of culture - can all be cut up and reassembled.

You can create art and beauty with a computer.

At the beginning of this album I discovered the computer and had great fun playing with the thing. And I realized that, not being a good keyboard player, I could write things in very small sections, give them a certain feel and mess about with bends on the keyboard.

In the past, my process would start with a sample of another song, and I'd chop it up and use that as the basis of the song that I was making.

The genius of vinyl is that it allows - commands! - us to put our fingerprints all over that history: to blend and chop and reconfigure it, mock and muse upon it, backspin and skip through it.

Digital art software has empowered both the painterly side of photographers, and the photographer side of painters.

I like to blur the line between remix and cover version and new song.

There is a definite argument to be made that videogames are becoming an art form put together by artists of different types.

I don't know why we, in the art world, cannot unpack things and sort of make hybrid notions of a practice. We're very rigid. It's funny, though; in music, we have no problem sampling, mixing and remixing. But in the art world, why can't we take little parts of history and mix it together?

Now everybody's sampling.

There are many museums dedicated to technology, artistic endeavors, music, and that sort of thing. From that perspective, I think games really do have a place as a kind of collaborative art or a synthesis of all these various aspects into a whole, and that, in itself, can be perceived as art.

My muse is the digital world.

I remixed a remix, it was back to normal.

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.

These things I sample, or clip, are things that we share - music, films, sounds. It triggers a layer of participation from the audience as they recognize the material and remember it.

A lot of the images I use are already out there in the public or in the news. I just steal them or photograph them or repaint them, so they've already been talked about, already been consumed.

Today, it's very tempting to create songs by cutting and pasting in the studio.

Usually, I cut songs by other people that are artists that I already love.

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.

I downloaded ProTools - legally, of course... and I wanted to impress girls by making remixes of songs.

I think 21st century should be art without objects.

Blending tracks and weaving and manipulating prerecorded music to create this mood, some people do it much better than others.

Being a hybrid maker off and on over the years, I'm very comfortable with the idea and have been the subject of quite a few pretty good mash-ups myself.

Photoshop makes things look beautiful just as you have special effects in movies. It's just a part of life.

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.