Buffy Sainte-Marie
Buffy Sainte-Marie
Buffy Sainte-Marie, OCis a Native Canadian singer-songwriter, musician, composer, visual artist, educator, pacifist, and social activist. Throughout her career in all of these areas, her work has focused on issues of Indigenous peoples of the Americas. Her singing and writing repertoire also includes subjects of love, war, religion, and mysticism...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionWorld Music Singer
Date of Birth20 February 1941
CountryUnited States of America
progress done manipulation
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.
kids sound pot
I was playing with sound like I would have played with pots and pans as a kid.
kids school thinking
All kids, I think, are creative, but they get it pounded out of them in school.
hands phones house
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.
song hard-work giving
I really work hard to shape the song so that it's attractive... You don't want to give people the information in an enema.
art digital painting
The artistic process in digital art is very much the same as for making other kinds of paintings.
firsts machines macintosh
My first Macintosh was a 128k machine which I upgraded to 512k the minute it became possible.
eye exercise college
There is an exercise I teach at colleges: Get yourself a canvas and a bunch of acrylics and go into a very dimly lighted room. Dip a brush into one of the colors, slap it on the canvas, don't look, close your eyes, make a painting, don't look, turn the lights on and see what you've got. I think this releases people from the editor in their life that's always standing over their shoulder saying, "Oh, you don't have any talent; who do you think you are?"
dream rooms
You have to leave room in life to dream.
light consistency easy
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.
kids native-american usa
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.
peace light acres
All the lights on Broadway don't amount to an acre of green.
joy poverty culture
There is so much joy in native culture but so much poverty. It's very disturbing.
song player guitar
I always had wished somebody else would sing my songs, but there wasn't anybody who knew them, so I sang them myself and eventually became a better singer and guitar player.