When somebody says, ‘Oh, Buffy, you’re such a warrior for peace’, I stop them and say, ‘No, I’m not really a warrior for peace. What I promote is alternative conflict resolution’. – Buffy Sainte-Marie
When we draw on the tablet, the drawing shows up on the computer screen. If we have chosen to tell the computer that the stylist is to behave like a piece of chalk, or a pen, or a wet brush, it will. – Buffy Sainte-Marie
I’m so happy to be a song-writer – I’m even surprised when I get to record anything. I consider it a considerable privilege and a blessing to have a medium of expression that has a place in the world. – Buffy Sainte-Marie
I was adopted without the benefit of papers. They used to hide adoption in the forties; I don’t know why. Perhaps it was shameful. I could have been kidnapped – there are all kinds of crazy things that people have done – but I got over dealing with that a long time ago. – Buffy Sainte-Marie
Sixteen million colors in your palette are hard for any artist, especially a beginner, to turn down. – Buffy Sainte-Marie
The artistic process in digital art is very much the same as for making other kinds of paintings. – Buffy Sainte-Marie
I’ve always had that attitude about my career: it’s something that I do, but it’s not my whole life. I have a real life, a personal life: I’ve got a lot of chickens, I’ve got a horse, I’ve got a kitty-cat, I’ve got a lot of goats, I’ve got animals all over the place. – Buffy Sainte-Marie
Digital art software has empowered both the painterly side of photographers, and the photographer side of painters. – Buffy Sainte-Marie
The time I save setting up and cleaning up probably balances out by the time I spend on output. – Buffy Sainte-Marie
If I’m interrupted, it’s just a minor inconvenience, but not a disaster, because it’s easy to get back where I was: that is, the paint has not changed consistency; the light has not moved. – Buffy Sainte-Marie
Once an artist explores the vast variety of tools and features available on the great programs, we’re hooked. – Buffy Sainte-Marie
The art of the three-minute song is more like journalism than writing a big 400-page book. You want to be brief, you want to make sense right yen and there. And sometimes that takes a bit of work. – Buffy Sainte-Marie
Instead of kids just hearing about beads and baskets and fringe, and about what ‘was’ and ‘were,’ we present Native American culture as a living contemporary culture. – Buffy Sainte-Marie
I’m not like a professional writer with professional skills. Songs kind of come into my head the same way they did when I was a kid. I say I’m an overgrown kindergarten kid. I work on songs. – Buffy Sainte-Marie
Another time factor is output: proofing and printing. That is, getting your work out of the computer and onto paper and having it satisfy you. It can be time consuming and expensive. – Buffy Sainte-Marie
By looking at the questions the kids are asking, we learn the scope of what needs to be done. – Buffy Sainte-Marie
The key is in remaining just aloof enough from a painting so that you know when to stop. – Buffy Sainte-Marie
But in the old days, visual artists used to fall into two distinct categories: those of us who created images with cameras and those of us who applied stuff onto other stuff, with brushes or other tools. – Buffy Sainte-Marie
Digital imaging allows both groups to rise above the limitations of mess and clutter and mechanics, and apply our talents to creating images limited only by our imaginations. – Buffy Sainte-Marie
We allow each other so little enjoyment or even tolerance for our individualities, our uniquenesses, and yet to me, that’s what it’s all about. – Buffy Sainte-Marie
We also have the option of scanning in an image from outside the computer… a photo, or a sketch done with traditional tools; and we can then paint, manipulate, process, change, and further develop the image within the computer, watching our progress on the monitor. – Buffy Sainte-Marie
That is, an artist who creates lots of work probably experiences prolific days and slower days. – Buffy Sainte-Marie
My first Macintosh was a 128k machine which I upgraded to 512k the minute it became possible. – Buffy Sainte-Marie
The paintings are transferred from my computer to a disk, and I can hand it to the printer this way; or I can modem the painting to the printer over the phone lines from my house in Hawaii. – Buffy Sainte-Marie
