Bill Sienkiewicz Quotes

• Cartooning is an honorable thing

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  Artist, Honorable

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• 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

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  Mean, Artist, Style

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• To me, the technique was almost irrelevant; it was what was coming across.

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  Artist, Technique, Irrelevant

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• 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

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  One Day, Different, Pieces

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• 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

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  Artist, Different, Looks

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

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  Black And White, Artist, Paint

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

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  Levels, Unreality, Certain

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

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  Movie, Artist, People

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• I didn't want to feel constrained, so I took on the Mutants

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  Mutants, Want, Feels

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

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  Artist, World, States

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• Nothing is really media driven or committee driven, so you can actually just produce something

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  Artist, Media, Driven

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• So much of Jaws was amazing because the mind filled in what was missing.

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  Artist, Filled In, Missing

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• 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

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  Journey, People, Way

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

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  Artist, Pushing Boundaries, Safe

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

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  Artist, Stuff, Wanted

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• 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

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  Artist, Looks, Film

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• Comics are really my life blood in a lot of respects

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  Artist, Blood

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• After that I jumped, especially being in art school, to the illustrators.

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  Art, School, Illustrators

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• I still love a lot of the guys who just paint

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  Guy, Paint, Stills

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

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  Artist, Want, Avenues

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• 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

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  Way, Facts, Venues

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

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  Artist, Versions

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

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  Artist, Want, Stuff

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

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  Night Vision, Bakers, Clear Vision

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• 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

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  Movie, Artist, World

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