“The computer is a useful tool. Photoshop is a computer tool for picture making. It in effect allows you to draw directly in a printing machine, one of its many uses. One draws with the colors the printing machine has, and the printing machine is one anyone can have. They are now superior to any other kind of printing, but because its very slow, of limited commercial appeal.
I used to think the computer was too slow for a draughtsman. You had finished a line, and the computer was 15 seconds later, an absurd position for someone drawing, but things have improved, and now it enables one to draw very freely and fast with color. There are advantages and disadvantages to anything new in mediums for artists, but the speed allowed here with color is something new, swapping brushes in the hand with oil or watercolor takes time. These prints are made by drawing and collage, they exist either in the computer or on a piece of paper, they were made for printing, and so will be, printed. They are not photographic reproductions.”
- David Hockney, 2008
