I thought the iPhone was great, but this takes it to a new level - simply because it's eight times the size of the iPhone, as big as a reasonably-sized sketchbook... Anyone who likes drawing and mark-making will like to explore new media.
People from the village come up and tease me: 'We hear you've started drawing on your telephone.' And I tell them, 'Well, no, actually, it's just that occasionally I speak on my sketch pad,'
We need all kinds of artists. We have no need to destroy drawing. We lose so much. This wouldn't happen in music.
It's all one to me: opera, painting, drawing, faxes.
Who would have thought that the telephone would bring back drawing?
Drawing is rather like playing chess: your mind races ahead of the moves that you eventually make.
I haven't stopped painting or drawing - I've just added another medium.
I mean if you draw you like drawing, it's er, an activity you do all the time actually.
I see the iPad as a wonderful new drawing medium, but I am at a loss as to how to make it pay.
Before he did all those lovely line drawings, Matisse would make really detailed charcoal drawings and tear them up. He wouldn't leave them about... I understand what he was doing: discovering what's there... to make the line meaningful, to find a linear solution...