Digital Art Key Quotes ~

1."Tools can be and sometimes have to be learned and btw they are in steady development so you always have to learn new things.I personally think it's surely useful to have some technical understanding of what is going on behind the scenes but the artistic skills are the ones which are important if you want to work creative."

From Tim Borgmann which is a famous Designer / Abstract artist ~

Interview with Tim Borgmann from http://www.tdt3d.com/articles_viewer.php?art_id=109


2. "'Free' computer graphics can serve as a source of new programming methods and of ideas for creating new shapes. It is through playful experiments, but also through confrontation with classical art, that experience is gained which can be useful in several ways"

From Herbert W Franke (scientist and artist)

Essay :The New Visual Age: The Influence of Computer Graphics on Art and Society from http://www.dam.org/essays/franke01.htm

3.'In Europe, in the late 1960s, artists with strong visual and conceptual alliances with the Constructivist tradition, including Manuel Barbadillo, Edward Zajec, Vera Molnar, and Manfred Mohr, were the first to use computers for artistic ends.'

From Cynthia Goodman, author of the well-known survey of computer art 'Digital Visions'

Essay :Computers and Modern Art: Digital Art Museum from Mike King on http://www.dam.org/essays/king02.htm

4." By created all digitally, I am saying that they may draw, or paint using the mouse or a pen tool and create images imitating traditional methods. This is a wonderful form of art, and I do not think that it should be roped into the type of digital art that I, or others with a similar style, produce."

From Jason Beam( artists )

Essay : Clarification of Digital Art on

http://digitalart.org/articles.php?action=ReadArticle&ID=5

5."After studying artists and paintings of the 16th, 17th and 18th century, one thing hit my eye: nevertheless whether digital art is "minor art" or not, we still should try to focus on compositoric aspects within an image. Still we try to focus on what we want to call meaning and mood or feeling."

From Sebastian Holmer

Essay :"20minutes" - A Quick Essay About Composition and Meaning on http://digitalart.org/articles.php?action=ReadArticle&ID=8