Bill Sienkiewicz famous quotes

After that I jumped, especially being in art school, to the illustrators.
-- Bill Sienkiewicz

#Art #School

I wanted to be complete, because I figured that, visually, there was an avenue to explore with painted stuff
-- Bill Sienkiewicz

#Stuff #Wanted

Cartooning is an honorable thing
-- Bill Sienkiewicz

#Honorable

But if I really want to produce my own work and tell stories, then I will
-- Bill Sienkiewicz

#Stories #Want #Produce

But there's still an avenue for smaller comics and personal expression
-- Bill Sienkiewicz

#Expression #Stills

But with comics you're reading and assimilating an image simultaneously, instead of just reading or watching the tube
-- Bill Sienkiewicz

#Reading

One of the problems I have with a lot of movies these days is that everything is too well lit. In the world of digital creations there is a tendency to show too much
-- Bill Sienkiewicz

#World #Too Much #Digital

Kyle Baker's work is really funny, but it's also got a very clear vision
-- Bill Sienkiewicz

#Vision #Bakers #Clear Vision

So cartooning, for me, is an honorable thing. It's pushing the envelope. It's the truth of something through exaggeration
-- Bill Sienkiewicz

#Envelopes #Pushing #Honorable

But I'm aware of the fact that I'm working in a commercial venue where I'm producing something that I wouldn't normally be approaching the way I'm doing it
-- Bill Sienkiewicz

#Way #Facts #Venues

So there's kind of a simultaneous aspect to pushing the boundaries, and being very safe
-- Bill Sienkiewicz

#Pushing #Safe #Kind

And within the world that you've created, the physics of that world have to remain constant; they can't be amorphous and changing.
-- Bill Sienkiewicz

#World #Physics #Constant

There is a whole generation of people who are going to see movies or watch TV who don't want to work.
-- Bill Sienkiewicz

#Movie #People #Watches

Especially with Elektra, because I'm doing a lot of the covers for the new version of Elektra.
-- Bill Sienkiewicz

#Artist

I want to say 90% of stuff out there is just crap that got made. The main point is that it got produced.
-- Bill Sienkiewicz

#Artist #Want #Stuff

So much of Jaws was amazing because the mind filled in what was missing.
-- Bill Sienkiewicz

#Artist #Missing #Mind

Like Godfather, you look at a movie like that, or something that James Gray has directed, a film with minimal or pin lighting as opposed to everything being lit bright and flat, where everything is evident
-- Bill Sienkiewicz

#Looks #Film #Gray

Nothing is really media driven or committee driven, so you can actually just produce something
-- Bill Sienkiewicz

#Media #Driven #Produce

People who can pull you in and take you on a journey, as opposed to simply adding flash. Again, that feels very clinical, and I don't respond to that the way I used to
-- Bill Sienkiewicz

#Journey #People #Way

If you're going to establish a certain level of unreality than you have to deal with it
-- Bill Sienkiewicz

#Levels #Unreality #Certain

Do the story in the way it really demands to be done, which may mean using several different styles or only one style; but it's still about respecting the story
-- Bill Sienkiewicz

#Mean #Style #Different

And I've never viewed comics as assignments for the client
-- Bill Sienkiewicz

#Clients #Assignments

It's interesting, because in the corporate stuff there's a dichotomy there, depending on the creator. Even what, in essence, may be a very safe corporate approach, there is some stuff that is allowed to be pushed
-- Bill Sienkiewicz

#Essence #Interesting #May

I didn't want to feel constrained, so I took on the Mutants
-- Bill Sienkiewicz

#Mutants #Want #Feels

To me, that's one of the things that I love about doing this stuff. One day I can work on this piece in watercolor, and then work on something else on the computer, or work on something else that's a completely different approach
-- Bill Sienkiewicz

#One Day #Different #Pieces

If somebody can inspire me, it feels really special
-- Bill Sienkiewicz

#Inspire #Special #Feels

I was lucky enough to be given books that weren't top sellers; books that were kind of under the radar
-- Bill Sienkiewicz

#Book #Lucky #Kind

I still love a lot of the guys who just paint
-- Bill Sienkiewicz

#Guy #Paint #Stills

I wanted to learn how to paint rather than just doing black-and-white work
-- Bill Sienkiewicz

#Black And White #Paint #Wanted

So I look at a lot of stuff now that I did and some of it looks tame to me, but my interest in terms of what I want to say with it is a little different
-- Bill Sienkiewicz

#Different #Looks #Want

And that, to me, is the main attraction to comics. It's an avenue to say what you want to say
-- Bill Sienkiewicz

#Want #What You Want #Attraction

For a while I felt very alone; sort of out there in the world of comics, especially here in the States
-- Bill Sienkiewicz

#World #States

Comics are really my life blood in a lot of respects
-- Bill Sienkiewicz

#Blood

To me, the technique was almost irrelevant; it was what was coming across.
-- Bill Sienkiewicz

#Artist #Technique #Irrelevant